"scratty" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more scratty",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most scratty",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scratty (comparative more scratty, superlative most scratty)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 87:",
          "text": "Odd that her head, so small now with the scratty cap of hair, was still heavy enough to dent the pillow down.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, David Nobbs, Sex and Other Changes, page 2:",
          "text": "Her charm was in the toss of her head as she climbed the scratty trees that lined the River Rundle.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Susan Hill, The Shadows in the Street:",
          "text": "Oriental girls – and how did she think she could compete with them? Abi Righton, poor skin, scratty hair, wonky teeth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Thin, meagre; unkempt."
      ],
      "id": "en-scratty-en-adj-vV7pdU8t",
      "links": [
        [
          "Thin",
          "thin"
        ],
        [
          "meagre",
          "meagre"
        ],
        [
          "unkempt",
          "unkempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, chiefly UK) Thin, meagre; unkempt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɹati/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scratty"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more scratty",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most scratty",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scratty (comparative more scratty, superlative most scratty)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English adjectives",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/æti",
        "Rhymes:English/æti/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 87:",
          "text": "Odd that her head, so small now with the scratty cap of hair, was still heavy enough to dent the pillow down.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, David Nobbs, Sex and Other Changes, page 2:",
          "text": "Her charm was in the toss of her head as she climbed the scratty trees that lined the River Rundle.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Susan Hill, The Shadows in the Street:",
          "text": "Oriental girls – and how did she think she could compete with them? Abi Righton, poor skin, scratty hair, wonky teeth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Thin, meagre; unkempt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Thin",
          "thin"
        ],
        [
          "meagre",
          "meagre"
        ],
        [
          "unkempt",
          "unkempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, chiefly UK) Thin, meagre; unkempt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɹati/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scratty"
}