a. [f. as prec.] Of a sprawling character; straggly. Also Comb.
1798. Jane Austen, Lett. (1884), I. 160. Why is my alphabet so much more sprawly than yours?
1897. Blackmore, Dariel, xlix. I fell in with the rear of that sprawly-jointed troop.
1905. L. Allen Harker, in Longman’s Mag., March, 443. A sprawly, squirmy, noisy kitten.
