Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Stunted; shriveled.
  • Abounding with stunted bushes or brushwood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prov. Eng. & Scot. Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective UK, Scotland, dialect Abounding in scrog.
  • adjective UK, Scotland, dialect twisted; stunted

Etymologies

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scrog +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Dad told some pretty scroggy ghost stories while he roasted some fish.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • (although that is a hardy sign), nor so scroggy at the hoof -- ay, and they would trot for evermore.

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

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