scroggy
- adjective
- Archaic
:
cubierto de maleza
- The old path was barely visible beneath the scroggy undergrowth.
Examples
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We set up camp in a scroggy area filled with tangled bushes and wild grass.
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The hikers struggled through the scroggy terrain along the riverbank.
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The scroggy bushes made it difficult to walk through the garden.
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This area is quite scroggy after the heavy rains.
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The hikers struggled through the scroggy terrain covered with dense thickets and tall grass.
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We set up camp in a scroggy area, where wild bushes and overgrown vegetation surrounded us.
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The old path was hard to find due to the scroggy undergrowth that had taken over the landscape.
Synonyms
9
6.0
Thin and untidy in appearance, often with rough, uneven ends
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6.5
Having long, loose parts that look untidy, like hair or bushes
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3.8
Covered with many low bushes or thick plants
Land that is rough and thinly covered with short bushes and small plants
Having many small clumps of grass that stick up
Rough and uneven with many jagged edges
Antonyms
How Overgrown
Surface Forms
Morphology
scroggy = scrog (semi-transparent) = scrog + y
Formed from the dialectal noun 'scrog' + adjectival suffix '-y'; the morphological relation is regular but the base is rare, so meaning is not obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Scroggy comes from an old word scrog meaning 'small bush' used in Scots and northern English, and is like the common word scrub. So, land that is scroggy is full of rough, tangled bushes and wild plants.