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ruggy, a. Now dial.|ˈrʌgɪ| Also 5 rogi, roggy, 6 ruggie. [Related to rugged a.1 Cf. Sw. ruggig in similar senses.] 1. Rugged, in various senses; rough; † shaggy; † wild, stormy.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2025 Tho cam this woful Theban Palamon, With flotry berd, and ruggy [v.r. rogi] asshy heerys. c1440Pallad. on Husb. vii. 188 The ruggy lordis Of broun colour be slayn for this discordis. Ibid. xi. 86 Threste in a braunche of roggy wilde olyue. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 61 A sore, ruggie, and tempestuous day, with wind, snow, and sleet. 1598Yong Diana 171 There was seene the deadly Cypresse,..the blacke and ruggie Elme. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 319 Leaue off to wash those cliues and ruggy caues, and now repaire to monumentall graues. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 155 This ruggy fringe is joined to a garment which..reacheth to the very ground. 1849in De Vere Americanisms (1872) 536 It's a mighty ruggy trail..up the Shasta Mountain. 2. (See quots. Perhaps a different word.)
1850Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. ii. 733 The sainfoin becomes ‘ruggy’, as it is called, in about 4 years, and then it is changed to another piece of land. 1860Slang Dict. (ed. 2) 203 Ruggy, fusty, frowsy. |