different between scraggy vs scragly

English

scraggy (comparative scraggier, superlative scraggiest)

Rough and irregular; jagged.
- c. 1890, William Dean Howells, Tennyson, stanza 18:
  Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue
  Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
- 1894, Gilbert Parker, The Trail of The Sword. ch. 10:
  [H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
Lean or thin, scrawny.
- 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, ch. 2:
  On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck.

scragly (comparative more scragly, superlative most scragly)

Dated form of scraggy.
- 1869, Joanna Hooe Mathews, Bessie among the mountains
  The second bud had half opened into another scragly, stunted flower […]

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