a. [f. STRAGGLE v.1 and sb. + -Y.] Characterized by straggling.
1866. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), I. 152. At the riding-house … was a kind of straggly group, or small crowd, with redcoats interspersed.
1880. Miss Broughton, Second Thoughts, I. iii. A shaky, straggly old man’s hand.
1882. Garden, 2 Sept., 204/3. The spike has numerous long straggly branches.
1890. J. Hatton, By Order of Czar, IV. i. His hair long and straggly.
