raggy

From Middle English raggy, from Old English raggiġ; equivalent to rag +‎ -y.

raggy (comparative raggier, superlative raggiest)

1. Raglike; like a rag.
2. Scruffy; tending to dress in rags.
3. Similar in style to ragtime music.

From rag +‎ -y, rag being a dialectal (northern England) word for a fog or mist with drizzling rain, related to dialectal Danish rag (“sea vapour”).^[1][2] Compare roke, rawk, from a word for smoke (compare Swedish rök (“smoke”)), which may or may not be related.

raggy

1. (dialectal, especially Yorkshire, Lancashire, possibly obsolete) Foggy, misty (and typically cold), with drizzling rain.
   • 1874 (edition of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, page 157:

     It looks a bit rough wi' lyin' out thoose raggy neets.

   • 1892, David Grieve, Ward, III, book IV, vi:

     It's been nobbut raggy weather up o' the moors this winter.

raggy (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ragi (“finger millet”)

• aggry

• raggi

From Old English raggiġ; equivalent to ragge +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraɡiː/

raggy

1. ragged; raggy
2. shaggy

• English: raggy

• “raggī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.