scraggy
/ˈskraɡi
/adjective (scraggier, scraggiest)
1(Of a person or animal) thin and bony: scraggy mongrels a scraggy neck...
- I went to check my balance at a cashpoint and noticed a rather scraggy man leaning in the window of a white van parked beside the cashpoint.
- One day in the mountains I met a young shepherd and we chatted for over half an hour while his scraggy sheep tinkled and grazed.
- There were flies by the billions, dirt and refuse everywhere, and scraggy dogs searching in the stalls for food.
Synonyms
scrawny, thin, thin as a rake, skinny, skin-and-bones, size-zero, gaunt, bony, angular, gawky, rangy, raw-boned, skeletal, emaciated, pinched;
lean, slim, slender, lanky, spindly, gangly, gangling
dated spindle-shanked
1.1 (also chiefly North American scraggly) Ragged, thin, or untidy in form or appearance: an old man with a scraggy beard...
- Together with his unkempt mop of wavy brown hair and his scraggly beard, his appearance was most intimidating.
- His pale face, which was thin and almost frail, was framed by a scraggly beard and long straight hair that was perfectly parted in the middle.
- Don Shirley, an understated man with steel-frame glasses and a scraggly beard, was a kindred spirit.
Derivatives
scraggily
- Suddenly I felt conspicuous, standing there with my hair dripping onto the carpet and scraggily sticking to my neck and shoulders.
scragginess
- Its rough surfaces bring a scragginess to his voice, the rising and falling tone making his words seem a plead, almost, a yearn.
Rhymes
- black bottom pie
- black box
- black box theater
- black box theatre
- blackboy
- black brant
- black bread
- black-breasted
- black-breasted plover
- black brigade
- Black British
- Black Briton
- black-browed
- black-browed albatross
- black bryony
- blackbuck
- black bulgar
- black bun
- Blackburn
- Blackburnian
- Blackburnian warbler
- blackbutt
- black-butted
- black butter
- black cab