scrag

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: thin personskin and bonesscrag endgarrotegarrottegarottechoke

Open English WordNet

Noun (3)

  1. a person who is unusually thin and scrawnySynonyms: thin personskin and bonesOpposite fattyType of person, individualKinds spindlelegs, spindleshanks
  2. lean end of the neckType of cut of muttonPart of neck
  3. the lean end of a neck of vealSynonyms: scrag endType of cut of vealPart of neck

Verb (2)scragged, scragging

  1. strangle with an iron collar“people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain”Synonyms: garrotegarrottegarotteMore general strangle, strangulate
  2. wring the neck of“The man choked his opponent”Synonyms: chokeMore general compress, constrict
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Scrag (skrăg), noun

Origin: Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, noun

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.— William M. Thackeray

2. A rawboned person. informal James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

Scrag whale Zoology, a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

Scrag transitive verb

Origin: Cf. Scrag.

To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging. colloquial

An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.— Pall Mall Mag.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement

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