Meanings
- uncountableRoughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.
2004, Norman R. Beaupré, Marginal Enemies, →ISBN, page 59 - uncountableLeanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.
1922, Elinor Glyn, chapter 21, in Man and Maid1 more example
[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.
1900, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, “A Wrong Altar”, in Cupid's Garden
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