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craggy, a.|ˈkrægɪ|
Also Sc. craigie, -y.
[f. crag n.1+ -y.]
1. Abounding in or characterized by crags; of the nature of a crag, steep and rugged.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 108 Thys hyl is craggy and eke cavernous. 1555Eden Decades 89 Craggy rockes full of the dennes of wylde beastes. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. cvii. (1612) 415 So inaccessible is Wales, so mountainous, and craggie. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 289 Whose Bark ..Or Pinnace anchors in a craggy Bay. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. III. 154 We..entered Craven, which is a very hilly and craggy Country. 1786Gilpin Obs. Pict. Beauty, Cumbrld. (1788) II. 227 Bunster-dale opens with a grand craggy mountain on the right. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iii. xiv. (1886) 110 One of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks.
2. transf. Hard and rough or rugged in form.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 54 Weare the hart of craggie flint or steele. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 140 Three craggy Blocks. 1741Monro Anat. Bones (ed. 3) 101 The..craggy Part of each of these Bones. 1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 197 Neither is the swelling always irregular and craggy. 1890A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xxxiii. 261 The craggy, strongly lined face of the old merchant.
3. fig. Hard to get through or deal with; rough, rugged, difficult; perilous. Obs. (exc. as directly fig. of prec. senses).
1583Stanyhurst Aeneis i. (Arb.) 28 Smooth this craggye trauayl. 1632Sir R. Le Grys tr. Velleius Paterc. 64 Hee..brought the Commonwealth into a craggie and redoubtable danger. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne (1877) I. 76 The quest of it is craggy, difficult, and painful. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 104 Byron ‘liked something craggy to break his mind upon’.
b. Of sound: Rough, harsh. rare.
1774W. Mitford Harmony of Lang. 153 The whole passage has a broken, or rather, to borrow a metaphor from a sister art, a craggy form. 1856Sunday at Home 134/1 Sounds that are very harsh, craggy, and grating to English ears.
4. Comb., as craggy-faced, craggy-forked, etc.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Handy-Crafts 247 One day he sate..Upon a steep Rock's craggy-forked crown. |
