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scraggy(adjective) Bony and lean. Synonyms: scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy, boneyUsage: She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck.
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As opposed to shaggy meaning lots of hair?
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Joseph Glantz wrote:As opposed to shaggy meaning lots of hair? Personally, I don't see any real connection between the two words. That is, unless you consider the fact that Shaggy, of Scooby-Doo fame, can be accurately characterized as bony and lean, or "scraggy," if you will. Of course, his character also has lots of hair, so this is a case of someone being both shaggy and scraggy.
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Drew wrote:Joseph Glantz wrote:As opposed to shaggy meaning lots of hair? Personally, I don't see any real connection between the two words. That is, unless you consider the fact that Shaggy, of Scooby-Doo fame, can be accurately characterized as bony and lean, or "scraggy," if you will. Of course, his character also has lots of hair, so this is a case of someone being both shaggy and scraggy. But not craggy. Although he was what, 18 years of age around 1970? He might be craggy, shaggy, and scraggy now.
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Yesterday, I whimsically verbalized this lexicon "scraggy" during babbling with one of my sidekicks. It seemed like he was able to grasp the meaning of the word(skinny), whereas not only I was way tentative to apply it in the snappy confab due to the first attempt, but also it was supposed to be a cross-cultural faux pas because he did not no longer drag anyone in our chit-chat after his back-biting.
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