Meaning

2 senses
  1. Rough, scruffy, or unkempt.

    wild, rau

    кудла́тыйkudlátyj, неухо́женныйneuxóžennyj

  2. Jagged or uneven; scraggy.

More definitions
  • ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance
  • being very thin

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom has a scraggly beard.

  2. He has a scraggly beard and a bum leg.

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  3. Yanni had long scraggly hair.

  4. Craning his scraggly neck down to him, he asked Nick what he was doing down there.

    deIndem er seinen dürren Hals zu ihm hinabreckte, fragte er Nick, was er da unten tue. — pengpau

Translations

3 languages
Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag). Equivalent to scrag + -le + -ly.

As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag). Equivalent to scrag + -le + -ly.

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Forms

scragglier, scraggliest
Comparativescragglier Lesson
Superlativescraggliest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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