scrag
noun
- fictional creature in the Dungeons & Dragons universe
verb
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Pronunciation: /ˈskɹæɡ/ / [ˈskɹʷæɡ] / /ˈskɹeɪ̯ɡ/
noun
Etymology: Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.
- A thin or scrawny person or animal.
“In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.”
- 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.”
- The neck, especially of a sheep.
- 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.”
- A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
- 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 her, when another guy yelled out "if you get agro about that son, ill be over there to show your girlfriend some manners", to which he promplty sat down :-), but after that she put her feet up on the seat in front of her !!”
“Post scrag fight, Buffy is sweetness and light in her cardy and teeny tiny handbag (plus blonde hair) contrasting with Faith who is lying in bed with her kill-me-thrill-me cutoff shorts (plus brunette hair).”
- A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
verb
Etymology: Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.
- 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.”
- 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 McMurdo to … scrag her?'”
- 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.”
“But they'll scrag you for it, you know, if you do. They scrag anyone who speaks to me.”