scraggle

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskɹæɡəl/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Verb

scraggle (third-person singular simple present scraggles, present participle scraggling, simple past and past participle scraggled)

  1. (transitive) To make scraggly; to make rough, scruffy, or unkempt; to tousle.

Noun

scraggle (plural scraggles)

  1. A small scraggly bit.
    • 1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6:
      The best, and most impressive, thing about A Man Like Eva is the central performance of Eva Mattes — in alarmingly convincing male drag — as the Fassbinder character. With a scraggle of beard pasted on her face, a battered fedora on her head, and a swarm of contempt on her lips, Mattes — who has appeared in five Fassbinder films — could almost pass for the real thing.

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