Crossword clues for scrag
scrag
- Beat up
- Skinny fellow
- Scrawny individual
- Raw-boned person
- Gaunt guy
- Bony piece of meat
- Bony one
- Really thin person
- Rawboned sort
- Cut of mutton
- Wring the neck of
- Very thin person
- Very lean one
- Thin animal
- Tackle roughly
- Skinny specimen
- Skinny person
- Skin-and-bones type
- Rough or twisted tree
- Rawboned fellow
- Raw-boned one
- Neck of mutton
- Lanky one
- Lanky animal
- Gaunt one
- Extremely gaunt one
- Butterball's opposite
- Bag of bones
- Rawboned animal
- Scrawny one
- Lean person
- Skinny one
- Skinny type
- Skinny sort
- Beanpole
- Skin-and-bones sort
- One who's all skin and bones
- Lean end of the neck
- The lean end of a neck of veal
- Kind of whale
- Rawboned person
- Lean animal
- Raw-boned animal or person
- Rawboned one
- Lean one
- Stunted tree
- Nape
- Scrawny animal
- Thin, stunted tree
- Neck, slangily
- Neck; beat up
- Type of whale
- Scrawny sort
- Scrawny person
- Gangly one
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrag \Scrag\, v. t. [Cf. Scrag.] To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging. [Colloq.]
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the
day war breaks out.
--Pall Mall
Mag.
Scrag \Scrag\ (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, n.]
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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.
--Thackeray. A rawboned person. [Low]
--Halliwell.-
A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Scrag whale (Zo["o]l.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale ( Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "lean person or animal, a raw-bones;" perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian skragg "a lean person;" dialectal Swedish skraka "a great, dry tree; a long, lean man," skragge "old and torn thing," Danish skrog "hull of a ship, carcass," Icelandic skröggr, a nickname of the fox); perhaps from root of shrink.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A thin or scrawny person or animal. (from the 16th c.) 2 (context archaic English) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. 3 (context archaic English) The neck, especially of a sheep. 4 (context Scotland English) A scrog. 5 (context Australia slang derogatory English) A rough or unkempt woman. vb. 1 (context obsolete colloquial English) To hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke. 2 To harass, to manhandle. 3 To kill or destroy.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Scrag can refer to:
- Global Rocket 1, given the NATO reporting name SS-X-10 Scrag
- A monster, also referred to as a "wizard", in the 1996 computer game Quake
- A type of aquatic troll in Dungeons & Dragons
- A derogatory term for a girl or woman, especially in Australia
- Scrag end, a cut of lamb taken from the neck
- To play fight or rough and tumble between adult and child
- To kill by hanging or strangling, nearly synonymous with ' lynch'
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the scrag is a type of troll.
Usage examples of "scrag".
I was scragged to the bone, so tired I could barely keep my eyes open as I climbed the two flights of stairs to my doss in the La Jolla Apartments.
Obvious inevitable inference: Hirst and Manning contrived the burglary, arranging to put it on Nosy Parker and daughter - Hirst found Manning meant to do him out of the swag and scragged him.
Heber and Tadhg were with Iollan, who was letting them practice scratching ogham lines on a scrag of rock behind the house.
When the class moved on, was no longer there, when nothing remained of it but calls, laughter, screams, and the voices of the scrags, schoolies, brain busters, in short, teachers, the magpie called three times.
Thandi realized that she knew very little, when all was said and done, of the strange subculture the Scrags had developed in their long centuries of social isolation.
But then Doc Simon got himself scragged and Gerber was alone again, with no one but ghosts for company.
How many hectares does a golf course take up, all the while people in Redmond and Puyallup are scragging each other for a two-square-meter squat in an alley?
When the class moved on, was no longer there, when nothing remained of it but calls, laughter, screams, and the voices of the scrags, schoolies, brain busters, in short, teachers, the magpie called three times.
Well, a couple of days later I see by the papers where three Brooklyn citizens are scragged as they are walking peaceably along Clinton Street, the scragging being done by some parties in an automobile who seem to have a machine gun, and the papers state that the citizens are friends of Frankie Ferocious, and that it is rumored the parties with the machine gun are from Harlem.
Church of Humanity Unchained which had finally shaken the female Scrags loose from their lingering attachment to Manpower.
Terra, as well as whatever Scrags the Ballroom had managed to get their hands on throughout the city.
Scrag several seconds earlier, since the man was acting as carelessly as Scrags tended to do.
I scragged him all right-a blast hole right through his head casing and he went down.
Some twitch maniac, turned on with some kind of bug juice, had come looking for people to scrag and had settled for Ethel cat.
I looked for rocks of any size to send down but there was none there larger than your fist, just fine gravel and plates of scrag.