Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scraggy

/ˈskɹæɡi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

Syllables: scrag-gy
IPA: /ˈskɹæɡi/

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Rough and irregular; jagged.

adj

Lean or thin, scrawny.

Example Sentences

"Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;"
"[H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it."
"On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck."
"He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique."

Inflected Forms

scraggier (comparative) scraggiest (superlative)

Derived Forms

scraggily scragginess

Synonyms

jagged jaggy scraggly boney bony scrawny skinny underweight weedy

Rhymes With

maggie shaggy baggy aggie saggy craggy baggie laggy maggy faggy aggy naggy

Questions

How do you pronounce scraggy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈskɹæɡi/.
What does scraggy mean?: Rough and irregular; jagged.

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