Scrag
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scrag is a noun meaning (Scotland) A scrog.
Meaning
(Scotland) A scrog.
More Meanings
- (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.
- (archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal.
- (archaic) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.
- (archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep.
- (obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.
Example Sentences
Get a life, you stupid scrag.
In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.
The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
Word Forms
- scrags
- scragging
- scragged
Synonyms for scrag
Depending on context, synonyms include garrotte, choke, garotte.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include choke, garrotte, garotte, scroag, scrump, scrog.
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