scroggy

scroggy
scroggy "overgrown with bushes," mid-15c., from scrog (n.) "a stunted bush, a shrub-like plant" (c.1400), probably related to scrag "a lean person or thing" (1570s); Cf. SCRAGGLY (Cf. scraggly).

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