scragglingadj.
/ˈskraɡ(ə)lɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1616 T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse i. 20 The Lords Sacrifice must be fatte and faire; not a leane, scraggling, starued Creature.
2. Straggling, irregular in outline or distribution.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > irregularly arranged
straggling1604
extravagant1608
scattering1610
squanderinga1616
scambling1702
scragglinga1722
wandering1785
straggly1862
straggled1884
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 79 They, by being weak, were forced to plough the ground scragling.
1767 S. Pennington Lett. III. 169 Where scraggling sloes their ebon branches spread.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 202 Scraggling, irregular, scattered. Applied principally to a village where the houses are situated irregularly... Also applied to vegetation that grows wild and disorderly.
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