scragginess
English
Etymology
Noun
scragginess (uncountable)
- Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
- Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
- 1900, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, "A Wrong Altar" in Cupid's Garden.
- [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.
- 1922, Elinor Glyn, Man and Maid, ch. 21:
- There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.
- 1900, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, "A Wrong Altar" in Cupid's Garden.