raggy

Meaning

Adjective

• Raglike; like a rag.
• Scruffy; tending to dress in rags.
• Similar in style to ragtime music.
• Foggy, misty (and typically cold), with drizzling rain.

Origin

• From Middle English raggy, from Old English raggiġ; equivalent to rag + -y
• rag + -y, rag being a dialectal (northern England) word for a fog or mist with drizzling rain, related to dialectal Danish rag. Compare roke, rawk, from a word for smoke (compare Swedish rök ("smoke")), which may or may not be related.