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Scraggy

//ˈskɹæɡi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Rough and irregular; jagged.

    "Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;"

  2. 2
    Lean or thin, scrawny.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a sharply uneven surface or outline wordnet
  2. 2
    being very thin wordnet

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