What's the difference between scraggy and weedy?

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.

Weedy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
  • (superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
  • (superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
  • (a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I set off down the still familiar regular path between the regularly spaced trees, finding weedy elder bushes bearing leaves.
  • (2) This locus is, however, highly polymorphic in weedy C. berlandieri populations of western North America.
  • (3) It's so easy, what with advergames , weedy regulation, ferocious lobbyists, monopolies, "regulatory capture", and with sugar and chips being so delicious, comforting, cheap, and all for sale seconds from a school gate near you.
  • (4) It's full of energy but perhaps could have done without the addition of a weedy brass section.
  • (5) Ed Miliband claimed that he and David were simply too weedy to fight.
  • (6) The government claims that tolls will only be charged by roads' new owners for new capacity, but that sounds distinctly like one of those weedy assurances given by politicians that, once yesterday's lunacy has become today's accepted practice, is swiftly forgotten (to these ears, it has a similar ring to all those early New Labour claims about strict limits on private involvement in the NHS, or what the likes of Nick Clegg have said about profit-making schools).
  • (7) You wait for the punchline on Nizlopi's JCB Song before realising, to your horror, that the weedy singing and naive lyric is not a Hoxton parody of outsider art but is meant to signify sincerity.
  • (8) Estate agents suggest sellers should try to: • Keep up external appearances: "To be greeted by a weedy drive and a facade covered in peeling paint is a death knell.
  • (9) There are no nasty oil-marks on the beach, nor weedy sewage outfalls.
  • (10) As a child he was weedy and introspective, a condition he cured by taking up boxing and rowing at Westminster School.
  • (11) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
  • (12) Facing a swaggering Conservative leadership that increasingly reveals a nasty bullying streak, Labour is tending to give off the anxious vibes of the weedy kid in the playground, eyes down, hands in its pockets, too ready for flight instead of fight.
  • (13) Livers from 4,501 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) collected from a weedy habitat in northeastern California during 48 consecutive monthly samplings were examined microscopically for Taenia taeniaeformis larva.
  • (14) I'm not sure you'd want me to fight a pack of Daily Mail journalists to defend your honour, because I'm weedy and no good at sport, but I do a good line in creative swearing at sexist scumbags.
  • (15) I see Labour MPs and shadow ministers hold their heads in their hands, asking why strong popular policies emerge watered down, weedy and weak.
  • (16) The relatively weedy intellectual decided to attend the local gym.
  • (17) Its followup dramatises a school reunion, which gives weedy Brian and childhood sweetheart Jessica one last chance to get together.
  • (18) They stay home with their colonic irrigationists, and their weedy macrobiotic diets and their personal trainers and their status anxiety.
  • (19) Isozymes of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) in leaf tissue of the cultivated chenopods (Chenopodium quinoa and C. nuttalliae) and their sympatric weedy relatives (C. hircinum and C. berlandieri) can be electrophoretically resolved into a sum total of five anodally migrating bands.

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