scraggle

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/ˈskɹæɡəl/

verb

To make scraggly; to make rough, scruffy, or unkempt; to tousle.

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Meanings

verbscraggle (third-person singular simple present scraggles, present participle scraggling, simple past and past participle scraggled)

present singular third person scraggles · participle present scraggling · participle past scraggled · past scraggled

  1. transitiveTo make scraggly; to make rough, scruffy, or unkempt; to tousle.
nounscraggle (plural scraggles)

plural scraggles

  1. A small scraggly bit.
    1 more example

    The best, and most impressive, thing about A Man Like Eva is the central performance of Eva Mattes — in alarmingly convincing male drag — as the Fassbinder character. With a scraggle of beard pasted on her face, a battered fedora on her head, and a swarm of contempt on her lips, Mattes — who has appeared in five Fassbinder films — could almost pass for the real thing.

    1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6
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APA

scraggle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraggle

MLA

“scraggle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraggle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scraggle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraggle.

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