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形容詞

scraggy (comparative scraggier, superlative scraggiest)

1. Rough and irregular; jagged.
   • c. 1890, William Dean Howells, Tennyson, stanza 18:

     Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue

     Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;

   • 1894, Gilbert Parker, The Trail of The Sword. ch. 10:

     [H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.

2. Lean or thin, scrawny.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 2, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:

     On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:

     He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique.

派生語

• scraggily
• scragginess

参照

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