SCRAG

scrag, scrag end

(noun) the lean end of a neck of veal

scrag

(noun) lean end of the neck

choke, scrag

(verb) wring the neck of; “The man choked his opponent”

garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag

(verb) strangle with an iron collar; “people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

scrag (plural scrags)

(archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal. [from the 16th c.]

(archaic) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.

(archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep.

(Scotland) A scrog.

(UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.

(Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.

A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

Verb

scrag (third-person singular simple present scrags, present participle scragging, simple past and past participle scragged)

(obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.

• Pall Mall Magazine

To harass;, to manhandle.

To destroy or kill.

Anagrams

• CAGRs, crags

Source: Wiktionary

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Scrag, n. Etym: [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, 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. Thackeray.

2. A rawboned person. [Low] Halliwell.

3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. Scrag whale (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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