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Scroggy vs Scraggy - What's the difference?

scroggy | scraggy |

As adjectives the difference between scroggy and scraggy

is that scroggy is abounding in scrog while scraggy is rough and irregular; jagged.

scroggy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) Abounding in scrog.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) twisted; stunted
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)

    scraggy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Rough and irregular; jagged.
  • * , Tennyson , stanza 18:
    • Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue
    Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
  • * 1894 , , The Trail of The Sword . ch. 10:
    • [H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy , and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
  • Lean or thin, scrawny.
  • * 1815 , , Guy Mannering , ch. 2:
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * scraggily * scragginess

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