scraggyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈskraɡi/, U.S.

/ˈskræɡi/

Etymology: < scrag n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

a. Of persons, animals, or their limbs: Lean, thin, bony. Chiefly in depreciatory use.

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

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cadavreux,..leane, skraggie, fleshlesse.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rachais, leane, carrion, scraggie.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 284 A Body hard, dry, scraggy, hairy, warm, with firm and rigid Muscles [etc.] are Signs of strong, rigid, and elastick Fibres.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 220 He is a Giant of a Man, for Stature;..large-bon'd, and scraggy.

1781 J. O. Justamond tr. B.-F.-J. Mouffle d'Angerville Private Life Lewis XV II. 133 Her sister, who was thin and scraggy.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xviii. 68 A bevy of dowagers, stout or scraggy.

1851 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 143 I hope the summer will plump out my poor scraggy arms.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iv. 250 Our party started..in a long procession, mounted on scraggy ponies.

1898 W. White Jrnls. 214 There were too many scraggy necks and shoulders.

b. transferred and figurative. Meagre, thin, scanty.

ΚΠ

1837 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 385 The scraggiest of prophetic discourses.

1881 Spectator 24 Dec. 1654 ‘Receive me, thy poor Christian..’ is very poor and scraggy, when compared to the stately simplicity of..‘Recevez-moi’ [etc.].

1897 W. E. Gladstone Let. 25 June in Daily News 30 June 7/2 I thank you for the Newark paper, a contrast with the scraggy sheet which strove to live there in my time.

2. Of meat: Lean. scraggy end = scrag-end.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > neck > inferior end

scraga1644

crag-enda1665

scraggy end1725

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > lean

leanc1430

leany?a1475

fatless1825

fat-free1869

scraggy1871

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Broth The scraggy End of a Neck of Mutton.

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. ii. 65 He ate..scraggy chops.

Derivatives

ˈscraggily adv.¹

ΚΠ

a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 148 I recollect being thankful (scraggily thankful) for the day of small things.

ˈscragginess n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > state of having

leannessa1000

boninessa1398

macilence?a1425

meagreness?a1425

macies?a1450

meagrec1450

povertya1475

bareness1552

extenuation1576

poorness1577

gauntness1607

lankness1611

macilencya1631

spareness1648

emaceration1656

emaciation1662

skinniness1688

angularity1822

thinness1827

pinchedness1857

scrawniness1863

scragginess1865

wizenedness1887

1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper i That general scragginess which distinguishes the arrangements of a gentleman's servants when they are cast upon their own resources.

1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 12 Where..do all the scraggy, bad-fleshed beasts come from..and what is the cause of their scragginess?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scraggyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈskraɡi/, U.S.

/ˈskræɡi/

Etymology: < scrag n.² + -y suffix¹. In some applications difficult to distinguish < scraggy adj.¹

Rough, irregular or broken in outline or contour; esp. of rocks, rugged; of a stem or branch: knotted, full of projections; of trees: ragged, stunted or scanty in growth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective]

unevenc1275

rudea1393

craggeda1400

knaggedc1430

raggedc1450

raggy1483

cocklya1529

rugged1528

knaggy1552

unlevel?a1560

craggy1568

scraggy1574

balkish1577

cockling1582

cockled1600

unequal1613

salebrous1633

scragged1641

inequal1661

unevenly1683

hummocky1767

snaggly1794

snaggy1806

hobblya1825

shreddy1835

scraggly1869

bobbly1909

pebbly1923

snaggled1938

the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or having knots

knarryc1405

knottedc1440

crabbed?1518

knubbed1567

warried1567

warry1567

scraggy1574

crab-knob1582

knurly1602

gnarleda1616

thwarterous1625

nodous1646

snubbya1758

snarly1770

swirly1786

gnarly1846

knarred1849

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by quality or health > [adjective] > ragged, stunted, or scanty

shrubbed1539

shrubby1581

scraggy1858

1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 35 If your Poales be scraggye, so as you cannot stryp the stalkes from them.

1686 B. Randolph Present State Morea 6 The Walls are high, and their Foundations on scraggy Rocks.

1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 8 A scraggy Rock, whose Prominence Half overshades the Ocean.

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 276 [Black Cobalt ore] Its surface scraggy and botryoidal.

1815 F. Burney Jrnl. in Jrnls & Lett. (1980) VIII. 498 The Walk was immensely long..through the scraggy & hilly streets.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. ix. 476 There is game abundant in the scraggy woodlands.

1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 1 The plateaus produce..bush and scraggy thorn.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 396 To use a broken scraggy touch for the tops of mountains.

Derivatives

ˈscraggily adv.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adverb] > roughly

scraggily1882

1882 R. D. Blackmore Christowell ii Within a landyard the lane is jumping scraggily, with ribs of solid rock.

ˈscragginess n.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > [noun] > roughness

rowa1250

horror1382

roughnessa1398

ruggishness?1541

unsmoothness1598

scabredity1624

squalora1637

scabrosity1657

scabridity1870

scragginess1885

1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 274/1 With their scraggy edges looking the very climax of scraggyness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scraggy
释义	scraggyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈskraɡi/, U.S. /ˈskræɡi/ Etymology: < scrag n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Of persons, animals, or their limbs: Lean, thin, bony. Chiefly in depreciatory use. 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 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cadavreux,..leane, skraggie, fleshlesse. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rachais, leane, carrion, scraggie. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 284 A Body hard, dry, scraggy, hairy, warm, with firm and rigid Muscles [etc.] are Signs of strong, rigid, and elastick Fibres. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 220 He is a Giant of a Man, for Stature;..large-bon'd, and scraggy. 1781 J. O. Justamond tr. B.-F.-J. Mouffle d'Angerville Private Life Lewis XV II. 133 Her sister, who was thin and scraggy. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xviii. 68 A bevy of dowagers, stout or scraggy. 1851 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 143 I hope the summer will plump out my poor scraggy arms. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iv. 250 Our party started..in a long procession, mounted on scraggy ponies. 1898 W. White Jrnls. 214 There were too many scraggy necks and shoulders. b. transferred and figurative. Meagre, thin, scanty. ΚΠ 1837 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 385 The scraggiest of prophetic discourses. 1881 Spectator 24 Dec. 1654 ‘Receive me, thy poor Christian..’ is very poor and scraggy, when compared to the stately simplicity of..‘Recevez-moi’ [etc.]. 1897 W. E. Gladstone Let. 25 June in Daily News 30 June 7/2 I thank you for the Newark paper, a contrast with the scraggy sheet which strove to live there in my time. 2. Of meat: Lean. scraggy end = scrag-end. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > neck > inferior end scraga1644 crag-enda1665 scraggy end1725 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > lean leanc1430 leany?a1475 fatless1825 fat-free1869 scraggy1871 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Broth The scraggy End of a Neck of Mutton. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. ii. 65 He ate..scraggy chops. Derivatives ˈscraggily adv.¹ ΚΠ a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 148 I recollect being thankful (scraggily thankful) for the day of small things. ˈscragginess n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > state of having leannessa1000 boninessa1398 macilence?a1425 meagreness?a1425 macies?a1450 meagrec1450 povertya1475 bareness1552 extenuation1576 poorness1577 gauntness1607 lankness1611 macilencya1631 spareness1648 emaceration1656 emaciation1662 skinniness1688 angularity1822 thinness1827 pinchedness1857 scrawniness1863 scragginess1865 wizenedness1887 1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper i That general scragginess which distinguishes the arrangements of a gentleman's servants when they are cast upon their own resources. 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 12 Where..do all the scraggy, bad-fleshed beasts come from..and what is the cause of their scragginess? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scraggyadj.² Brit. /ˈskraɡi/, U.S. /ˈskræɡi/ Etymology: < scrag n.² + -y suffix¹. In some applications difficult to distinguish < scraggy adj.¹ Rough, irregular or broken in outline or contour; esp. of rocks, rugged; of a stem or branch: knotted, full of projections; of trees: ragged, stunted or scanty in growth. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] unevenc1275 rudea1393 craggeda1400 knaggedc1430 raggedc1450 raggy1483 cocklya1529 rugged1528 knaggy1552 unlevel?a1560 craggy1568 scraggy1574 balkish1577 cockling1582 cockled1600 unequal1613 salebrous1633 scragged1641 inequal1661 unevenly1683 hummocky1767 snaggly1794 snaggy1806 hobblya1825 shreddy1835 scraggly1869 bobbly1909 pebbly1923 snaggled1938 the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or having knots knarryc1405 knottedc1440 crabbed?1518 knubbed1567 warried1567 warry1567 scraggy1574 crab-knob1582 knurly1602 gnarleda1616 thwarterous1625 nodous1646 snubbya1758 snarly1770 swirly1786 gnarly1846 knarred1849 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by quality or health > [adjective] > ragged, stunted, or scanty shrubbed1539 shrubby1581 scraggy1858 1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 35 If your Poales be scraggye, so as you cannot stryp the stalkes from them. 1686 B. Randolph Present State Morea 6 The Walls are high, and their Foundations on scraggy Rocks. 1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 8 A scraggy Rock, whose Prominence Half overshades the Ocean. 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 276 [Black Cobalt ore] Its surface scraggy and botryoidal. 1815 F. Burney Jrnl. in Jrnls & Lett. (1980) VIII. 498 The Walk was immensely long..through the scraggy & hilly streets. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. ix. 476 There is game abundant in the scraggy woodlands. 1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 1 The plateaus produce..bush and scraggy thorn. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 396 To use a broken scraggy touch for the tops of mountains. Derivatives ˈscraggily adv.² ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adverb] > roughly scraggily1882 1882 R. D. Blackmore Christowell ii Within a landyard the lane is jumping scraggily, with ribs of solid rock. ˈscragginess n.² ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [noun] > roughness rowa1250 horror1382 roughnessa1398 ruggishness?1541 unsmoothness1598 scabredity1624 squalora1637 scabrosity1657 scabridity1870 scragginess1885 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 274/1 With their scraggy edges looking the very climax of scraggyness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹1611adj.²1574
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