Scroggy vs Scraggy - What's the difference?
scroggy | scraggy |
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Abounding in scrog.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) twisted; stunted
Rough and irregular; jagged.
* , Tennyson , stanza 18:
* 1894 , , The Trail of The Sword . ch. 10:
Lean or thin, scrawny.
* 1815 , , Guy Mannering , ch. 2:
As adjectives the difference between scroggy and scraggy
is that scroggy is abounding in scrog while scraggy is rough and irregular; jagged.scroggy
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Adjective
(en adjective)- (Halliwell)
scraggy
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Adjective
(er)- 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.