different between scragly vs scraggly

English

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 […]

As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag).

scraggly (comparative scragglier, superlative scraggliest)

Rough, scruffy, or unkempt.
- 1913, Jack London, John Barleycorn, ch. 31:
  The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow.
- 1980 Nov. 24, John Skow, "In Arizona: A Million Dollar Sale of Cowboy Art," Time:
  What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.
Jagged or uneven; scraggy.
- 1916, Annie Fellows Johnston, Georgina of the Rainbows, ch. 24:
  She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.
- 2001 Sep. 7, Christopher John Farley, "At the MTV Awards: Redheads and Circuses," Time:
  "I have no idea," the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book.

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