scraggy /ˈskɹæɡi/ adjective2 •Lean or thin, scrawny.He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique. — 1912 •Rough and irregular; jagged.Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier — 1890 formsscraggier · scraggiest