What does scraggy mean?
Definitions for scraggy
ˈskræg iscrag·gy
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Princeton's WordNet
scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedyadjective
being very thin
"a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
jagged, jaggy, scraggyadjective
having a sharply uneven surface or outline
"the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs"
Wiktionary
scraggyadjective
Rough and irregular; jagged.
scraggyadjective
Lean or thin, scrawny.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Scraggynoun
Etymology: from scrag.
Such a constitution is easily known by the body being lean, warm, hairy, scraggy, and dry, without a disease. Arbuthnot.
From a scraggy rock, whose prominence
Half overshades the ocean, hardy men,
Fearless of rending winds and dashing waves,
Cut sampire. Phillips.
Webster Dictionary
Scraggy
rough with irregular points; scragged
Scraggy
lean and rough; scragged
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of scraggy in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of scraggy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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