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Scraggy means too thin, in a way that looks bony or not healthy. You might call a person, an animal, or a neck scraggy. It is not a kind word — it notices the bones. In British English this is the usual one of the pair; American speakers often prefer skinny or scrawny, and they may use scraggly when they mean messy growth. Though actually, a scraggy tree can also mean thin and uneven, so the two words overlap a little. Informal.
瘦巴巴的、骨瘦如柴的
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scraggyadj/ˈskɹæɡi/
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Rough and irregular; jagged.
- Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
- [H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
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Lean or thin, scrawny.
- On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck.
- He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。