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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | scrag end |
| Type of | cut of veal |
scrag::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | skin and bones, thin person |
| Type of | someone, person, somebody, individual, mortal, soul |
| Has types | spindleshanks, spindlelegs |
| Derivation | scraggy |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | cut of mutton |
Examples of scrag
scrag
Meat, when available, tended to be scrag end of something or corned beef.
From the telegraph.co.uk
What we know could just be the scrag ends thrown out from the begging.
From the guardian.co.uk
George, whose neck was three feet of scrag and whose skin would have made several dozen purses, all thick, dry leather, didn't care two hoots.
From the economist.com
Dig out some Irish music, whack some beef stock, vegetables and a scrag end of mutton into a slow cooker for six hours and serve your resulting stew with soda bread.
From the nzherald.co.nz
A terror track, we were promised, a strip so rock-hard and fast that the ball would leave scorch marks on it and Matt Prior's hands would be pulped like pieces of tenderised scrag-end.
From the guardian.co.uk
Then, after Benigni restricted an awards ceremony photo-opportunity to just three minutes, Italian press photographers went out of their way to scrag him for getting too uppity.
From the time.com
- Garrote: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"
- Thin person: a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
- Lean end of the neck
- Choke: wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"
- A thin or scrawny person or animal. [from the 16th c.]; The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end; The neck, especially of a sheep; A scrog; (slang) A rough or unkempt woman; (colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke; To harass, to manhandle; To kill or ...
- Beat up, especially by wringing the neck of.
- To straighten a spring, etc., which has been bent, by pushing, in the bulge and releasing.
- A sort of flying creature that shoots energy projectiles. (Also known as wizards.)
