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Scragged   Listen
adjective
Scragged  adj.  
1.
Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.
2.
Lean and rough; scraggy.





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"Scragged" Quotes from Famous Books



... said suddenly. "There's this about it. It's all jolly well, but a fellow's got to think for himself, Dave, old man. Now it doesn't matter a twopenny cuss to me about old Kitely—I don't care if he was scragged twice over—I've no doubt he deserved it. But it'll matter a lot to M. & C. if they're found out. I can touch that five hundred easy as winking—but—you take my meaning?—I daresay M. & C. 'ud run to five thousand if I ...
— The Borough Treasurer • Joseph Smith Fletcher
... you! Construe," said McTurk. "Those six bargees scragged the Czar, and left no evidence. ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
... the milder of mood, "Your conduct is savage and silly. They will search for these Babes in this Wood, And there'll be a big row about BILLY. Don't fancy you'll finish this job When you've scragged 'em and stifled their sobbins'! If these Babes we should murder and rob, Their graves won't be left to the ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Dec. 20, 1890 • Various


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