"scraggly" meaning in English

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      "word": "scraggliness"
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  "etymology_text": "As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag).",
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      "form": "scragglier",
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      "form": "scraggliest",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 24",
          "text": "Faintly from the street scraggly children's voices singing a yule song. Miss Tomson going to the window.\n\"Hey come here Mr Smith look at this, isn't that sweet, group of urchins, they're singing.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980 November 24, John Skow, “In Arizona: A Million Dollar Sale of Cowboy Art”, in Time",
          "text": "What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Rough, scruffy, or unkempt."
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          "Rough",
          "rough#Adjective"
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        [
          "scruffy",
          "scruffy"
        ],
        [
          "unkempt",
          "unkempt"
        ]
      ],
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "naštǎrben",
          "sense": "Rough",
          "word": "нащърбен"
        },
        {
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "neraven",
          "sense": "Rough",
          "word": "неравен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Rough",
          "word": "wild"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Rough",
          "word": "rau"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kudlátyj",
          "sense": "Rough",
          "word": "кудла́тый"
        },
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          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "neuxóžennyj",
          "sense": "Rough",
          "word": "неухо́женный"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1916, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 24, in Georgina of the Rainbows",
          "text": "She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 September 7, Christopher John Farley, “At the MTV Awards: Redheads and Circuses”, in Time",
          "text": "\"I have no idea,\" the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 285",
          "text": "I climbed to a small ridge under a fiercely blazing sun and sat down under a scraggly gum tree to try and work out my bearings.",
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        "Jagged or uneven; scraggy."
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          "uneven",
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈskɹæɡ(ə)li/"
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  "word": "scraggly"
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    {
      "word": "scraggliness"
    }
  ],
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      "form": "scragglier",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scraggliest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 24",
          "text": "Faintly from the street scraggly children's voices singing a yule song. Miss Tomson going to the window.\n\"Hey come here Mr Smith look at this, isn't that sweet, group of urchins, they're singing.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980 November 24, John Skow, “In Arizona: A Million Dollar Sale of Cowboy Art”, in Time",
          "text": "What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rough, scruffy, or unkempt."
      ],
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          "Rough",
          "rough#Adjective"
        ],
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          "scruffy",
          "scruffy"
        ],
        [
          "unkempt",
          "unkempt"
        ]
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 September 7, Christopher John Farley, “At the MTV Awards: Redheads and Circuses”, in Time",
          "text": "\"I have no idea,\" the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 285",
          "text": "I climbed to a small ridge under a fiercely blazing sun and sat down under a scraggly gum tree to try and work out my bearings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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          "jagged"
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          "uneven",
          "uneven"
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          "scraggy",
          "scraggy"
        ]
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "naštǎrben",
      "sense": "Rough",
      "word": "нащърбен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neraven",
      "sense": "Rough",
      "word": "неравен"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Rough",
      "word": "wild"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Rough",
      "word": "rau"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kudlátyj",
      "sense": "Rough",
      "word": "кудла́тый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neuxóžennyj",
      "sense": "Rough",
      "word": "неухо́женный"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scraggly"
}