scaggy grass

9.3

Thin, untidy grass that grows unevenly and looks rough

noun

: césped descuidado

She glanced out at the scaggy grass invading the edges of the driveway.

Examples

After weeks of rain, the lawn was little more than scaggy grass and weeds.
The lawn was covered in scaggy grass.
It's hard to believe that such scaggy grass once made up a beautiful lawn.
Look at that scaggy grass!
After weeks of rain, the lawn was little more than scaggy grass and weeds.
It's hard to believe that such scaggy grass once made up a beautiful lawn.
She glanced out at the scaggy grass invading the edges of the driveway.

Antonyms

well-groomed

11 3.5

Neat and tidy in appearance with clean clothes and neat hair

How Untidy

scaggy grass

9.3

grassy

27 1.0

manicured

20 4.1

Surface Forms

scaggy grass singular

scaggy grasses plural

Morphology

scaggy + grass

The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: the adjective 'scaggy' (meaning scraggly/untidy) modifies 'grass', so the overall meaning—grass that looks untidy or scraggly—is directly derived from the parts. Note that 'scaggy' is rare/dialectal and may be unknown to many learners, but under the criterion that learners know the constituent words the meaning is fully compositional and predictable.

Etymology

Scaggy grass may come from the old word scraggy, which meant thin and ragged, and you can picture a lawn with thin, rough clumps and bare patches. So, scaggy grass means grass that looks 'untidy' or 'unkempt'.