Usually means: Untidy, irregular, or unevenly grown.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word scraggly:

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  1. scraggly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scraggly: Merriam-Webster
  3. scraggly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scraggly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scraggly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scraggly: Vocabulary.com
  7. scraggly: Wordnik
  8. scraggly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scraggly: Wiktionary
  10. scraggly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scraggly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scraggly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scraggly: Dictionary.com
  14. scraggly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scraggly: Rhymezone
  16. scraggly: FreeDictionary.org
  17. scraggly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. scraggly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scraggly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scragglier as well.)

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adjective:  Rough, scruffy, or unkempt.
adjective:  Jagged or uneven; scraggy.

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