What's the difference between scraggy and scragly?
Scraggy
Definition:
(superl.) Rough with irregular points; scragged.
(superl.) Lean and rough; scragged.
Example Sentences:
(1) He and his scraggy, kind old dog Gerard were based every evening at Leicester Square tube (exit 1), and for the past two years we met every week on my way home from choir.
(2) Old notes are delivered to the cash centres and destroyed before they become too scraggy, and then they are "granulated and made into compost", she says.
(3) There were bears, geese, rabbits, dogs, hedgehogs, pigs, elephants, a penguin, two tigers and a single doll, a scraggy female item named, for some reason, Bob.
(4) Recommended by the chatty bar staff (the norm in Belfast), Kinnegar’s Scraggy Bay is a terrific unfiltered IPA.
Scragly
Definition:
(a.) See Scraggy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The economist and active Liberal Democrat Tim Leunig has crunched the numbers for a couple with four children paying typical rent in Tolworth, an area branded "the scrag end of Kingston Borough" by London's Evening Standard.
(2) Cooking is, to me, about leisure and pleasure not haste and waste (in cooking quickly the best bits of the ingredients, such as the tops off leaks and scrag ends of meat, so good when used in stock, get binned).
(3) Even in Tolworth, described by the Evening Standard as the "scrag end of Kingston borough", a four bedroom house will give you little change from £400 a week.
(4) And even I, with my odd scrags of Russian, understand her reply. "