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# scraggy

«scraggy» in Mova's school dictionary: **thin and bony, with little flesh on it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (scraggier, scraggiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Scraggy means thin and bony, with little flesh on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scraggy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a thin, bony animal or person in a tale, such as a bird with long scraggy necks

### examples

- The old hen had scraggy legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scraggy/#x1)
- The scraggy dog was very hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scraggy/#x2)
- His scraggy neck stuck out of his collar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scraggy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scraggy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scraggy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.