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Scrag

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A thin or scrawny person or animal. archaic

    "In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing."

  2. 2
    the lean end of a neck of veal wordnet
  3. 3
    The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. archaic

    "The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves."

  4. 4
    lean end of the neck wordnet
  5. 5
    The neck, especially of a sheep. archaic
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  1. 6
    a person who is unusually thin and scrawny wordnet
  2. 7
    A scrog. Scotland
  3. 8
    A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class. UK, derogatory, slang
  4. 9
    A rough or unkempt woman. Australia, derogatory, slang

    "The large guy said that he couldnt sit down the front because of an eye condition, and she said, out loud, "too bad, go down the front". This was all heard by most of the crowd, 1 guy called her a bitch, i spoke out loud "what a scrag" which her boyfriend heard, he turned around agro like to defend her, when another guy yelled out "if you get agro about that son, ill be over there to show your girlfriend some manners", to which he promplty sat down :-), but after that she put her feet up on the seat in front of her !!"

  5. 10
    A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Verb
  1. 1
    To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle. colloquial, obsolete

    "An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out."

  2. 2
    wring the neck of wordnet
  3. 3
    To harass; to manhandle.

    "'...I urged him ... to ... try the Ickenham System ... a little thing I knocked together in my bachelor days ... it has a good many points in common with all-in wrestling and osteopathy. I generally recommend it to diffident wooers and it always works like magic...' Johnny stared. 'You mean you told McMurdo to … scrag her?'"

  4. 4
    strangle with an iron collar wordnet
  5. 5
    To destroy or kill.

    "[...] I went out lookin' for a line of retreat for my men. A man found me. I abolished him—privatim—scragged him."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.

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