knotted vs straggly

knotted

adj
  • Full of knots; knotty. 

  • Having the shape or form of a knot. 

  • Tied in knots. 

  • Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed. 

straggly

adj
  • Spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner. 

  • Not arranged in a line. 

How often have the words knotted and straggly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )