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Scrag   Listen
noun
Scrag  n.  
1.
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."
2.
A rawboned person. (Low)
3.
A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.





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"Scrag" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tonkin, that to-day's tale is for to-day. But by God I will come and take my share—you may tell your master—and a trifle over! And the next time I overtake you I promise to put a bullet in the back of your scrag neck." ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... right with us, an' we ever sight the smoke of a Jap gunboat comin' our way, the first thing I'll be apt to do will be to scrag Tamada or he'll blow the whole proposition, whether we've got the gold aboard or not. Even if he didn't want to tell becoz of his own share, they'd git it out of ...
— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn


Words linked to "Scrag" :   skin and bones, strangulate, cut of veal, individual, person, garrotte, neck, scrag end, spindleshanks, somebody, throttle, thin person, mortal, strangle, garrote, squeeze, constrict, someone, scraggy, press, fat person, garotte, soul, choke


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