scragginess

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15
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19
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11

Definition of scragginess

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
    “He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
    “He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.”
  2. (uncountable)Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
    “[I]f Marian's girlish slimness showed faint, prophetic signs of degenerating into scragginess, George was still far too deeply in love to heed such evil and irreverent prophecies.”
    “There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.”

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Etymology

From scraggy + -ness.

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