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Scragly vs Scraggly - What's the difference?

scragly | scraggly |

As adjectives the difference between scragly and scraggly

is that scragly is while scraggly is rough, scruffy, or unkempt.

scragly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • * 1868 , Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False
    • That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder, which piece I took off that morning, and which piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters; it was an awful scragly tear, and it fitted to a T.
  • * 1869 , Joanna Hooe Mathews, Bessie among the mountains
    • The second bud had half opened into another scragly , stunted flower

    scraggly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Rough, scruffy, or unkempt.
  • * 1913 , , John Barleycorn , ch. 31:
    • The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow.
  • * 1980 Nov. 24, John Skow, " In Arizona: A Million Dollar Sale of Cowboy Art," Time :
    • What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.
  • Jagged or uneven; scraggy.
  • * 1916 , , Georgina of the Rainbows , ch. 24:
    • She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.
  • * 2001 Sep. 7, , " At the MTV Awards: Redheads and Circuses," Time :
    • "I have no idea," the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book.

    Derived terms

    * scraggliness