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craggy

UK/ˈkɹæɡ.i/US/ˈkɹæɡ.i/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,673 of 15,258leans written

Craggy means full of steep rough rock. A craggy hillside, a craggy coast, a craggy face.

Applied to a face it is a compliment, or at least is meant as one: a craggy face is lined and strongly featured rather than merely old. Of landscape it means broken rock rather than smooth slope, and a crag is a single such outcrop.

Definitions of craggy

  1. 1adjectivecraggyFull of steep rough rock.C1

    “The climbers slowly made their way up the craggy mountainside.”

craggy is a quality of landscape.

Where it comes from

  1. mga

    crec

  2. Middle English

    crag

  3. English

    crag

  4. English, today

    craggy

Built from

  • *kar · an unknown language — stone, hard

From crag + -y. crag comes from 13th century Middle English crag, from mga crec, a contracted form of mga carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European -/qfa-sub - kar (“stone, hard”); see also xcl քար (“stone”), Sanskrit खर (“hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Nature & Weather

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craggy in the wild

  • Established in 1794, it was built before the town of the same name, which sprang up later in the surrounding craggy harbour.

    Oban distillery

  • Escarpada Point, also known as Craggy Point (escarpada is Spanish for "craggy"), is the rocky, rugged south-west point of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

    Escarpada Point

  • The Aubrey Hills in Arizona in the Lower Colorado River Valley corridor are a small, lower elevation, craggy mountain range bordering the southeast side of Lake Havasu.

    Aubrey Hills

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the crec family

crag

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