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noun
Scrag  n.  
1.
Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck. "Lady MacScrew, who... serves up a scrag of mutton on silver."
2.
A rawboned person. (Low)
3.
A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.





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"Scrag" Quotes from Famous Books



... cervical, scruff, atlas, axis, palea, dewlap, scrag, gula, nucha, auchenium, decollete, jugular, jugulum, wattle, wimple, wryneck, torticollis, Adam's apple, splenius, ruche, colliform, fichu, withers, gorget, carotid, goiter, retrocollic, cruels, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... paid for your bonnet?" shouted another, until a third girl pulled her back, panting, "If you say that any more I'll scrag yer!" For this third girl had spent a fortnight in the Mile End Road house, getting fed and strengthened before ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau[obs3], screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet[obs3], flitter, gobbet[obs3], mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive[obs3]; snip, snippet; snick[obs3], snack, snatch, slip, scrag[obs3]; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction &c. (part) 51; drop in the ocean. animalcule &c. 193. trifle &c. (unimportant thing) 643; mere nothing, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... I hadn't mistook my man. Now you look here, Andrew Ainslie, you're a bad lot. I've evidence to hang you fifty times over. But the Deacon is my mark. Will you peach, or won't you? You blow the gaff, and I'll pull you through. You don't, and I'll scrag you as sure as my name's ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV • Robert Louis Stevenson


Words linked to "Scrag" :   throttle, garrotte, squeeze, contract, someone, fat person, individual, strangle, cut of mutton, constrict, cut of veal, spindleshanks, skin and bones, person, press, garotte, spindlelegs, scrag end, soul, garrote, scraggy, strangulate, neck, compress, mortal


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