scragginess noun2 •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. — 1900 •Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor. — 2004