Meaning of scragly | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of scraggy.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder, which piece I took off that morning, and which piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters; it was an awful scragly tear, and it fitted to a T.”

“The second bud had half opened into another scragly, stunted flower […]”

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