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scrag

  • /skɹæɡ/ US, UK
  • /skɹaɡ/ British, Northern England, Southern
  • /skɾaɡ/ Scotland, Wales
  • /skɹæːɡ/ Australia
  • /skɹɛɡ/ New Zealand
  • /skɹeɪɡ/

Rhymes with -æɡ

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

noun scrags

  1. archaic A thin or scrawny person or animal. In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.
  2. archaic The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
  3. archaic The neck, especially of a sheep.
  4. Scotland A scrog. As they entered the foothills they came upon a dusty old diligence with six horses in the traces grazing the dry grass in a fold among the barren scrag.
  5. UK, derogatory, slang A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
  6. Australia, derogatory, slang A rough or unkempt woman. 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
  7. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

verb scrags · scragging · scragged

  1. colloquial, obsolete To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle. An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.
  2. 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
  3. 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.

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verb to choke

Русскийзадыха́ться zadyxátʹsja

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@misc{scrag_2026,
  title = {scrag},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scrag},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}