desgreñado

Spanish

Etymology

Related to greña (“tangled mess of hair”).

Adjective

desgreñado (feminine desgreñada, masculine plural desgreñados, feminine plural desgreñadas)

1. shaggy
2. seedy, untidy, unkempt

Further reading

• “desgreñado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10