"scraggly" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈskɹæɡ(ə)li/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scraggly.wav [Southern-England] Forms: scragglier [comparative], scraggliest [superlative]
Etymology: As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag). Etymology templates: {{m|en|scraggle|*scraggle}} *scraggle, {{m|en|scrag}} scrag Head templates: {{en-adj|scragglier}} scraggly (comparative scragglier, superlative scraggliest)
  1. Rough, scruffy, or unkempt. Categories (topical): Appearance Translations (Rough): нащърбен (naštǎrben) (Bulgarian), неравен (neraven) (Bulgarian), wild (German), rau (German), кудла́тый (kudlátyj) (Russian), неухо́женный (neuxóžennyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-scraggly-en-adj-DLQYDtb7 Disambiguation of Appearance: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of 'Rough': 85 15
  2. Jagged or uneven; scraggy. Categories (topical): Appearance
    Sense id: en-scraggly-en-adj-48STiqo5 Disambiguation of Appearance: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: scraggliness

Inflected forms

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