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scroggy (adj.)
[scroggy 词源字典]
"overgrown with bushes," Scottish and northern English, mid-15c., from
scrog
(n.) "a stunted bush, a shrub-like plant" (c. 1400), probably related to
scrag
"a lean person or thing" (1570s); compare
scraggly
.
[scroggy etymology, scroggy origin, 英语词源]