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Meanings of scrag in English

Catalan
garrotar
Spanish
agarrotar

Strangle with an iron collar.

        garrotar
        Catalan
        escanyar

        Wring the neck of.

              escanyar

              A person who is unusually thin and scrawny.

                  The lean end of a neck of veal.

                        Usage of scrag in English
                        1
                        The compatriot of Rachel was wrapping up a scrag of mutton.
                        Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
                        2
                        Now, perhaps you know somebody who is a scrag in society.
                        The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
                        3
                        Hunt for the spirit of the coming ruction and try to scrag it!
                        King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure
                        4
                        No wan iver seed a scrag of her after that.
                        Fort Desolation: Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land
                        5
                        And now I've done it, you want to scrag me.
                        The Keeper of the Door
                        6
                        Orgasm over, his penis shrivels to a slimy scrag, and he stows it away.
                        The crimson petal and the white
                        7
                        But this was just a scrag-end of turf -and a soggy one at that.
                        The Irish Times
                        8
                        Neck or scrag-end, used for cutlets, stews and meat-pies.
                        The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
                        9
                        The beard is all scrag, levelling out a good inch under the point of his chin.
                        The Irish Times
                        10
                        He surveyed me steadily for the scrag-end of a minute and then his left eyelid flickered.
                        The Lost Valley
                        11
                        Again and again has my appetite been frustrated with an offer of mere sinew and scrag.
                        The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
                        12
                        Clarice was inwardly convinced that Vivian belonged to the scrag end, so far as character went.
                        A Forgotten Hero / Not for Him
                        13
                        Neck, scrag-end used for stews, broth, meat-pies, etc.
                        The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
                        14
                        One can't scrag a man under his own roof, I suppose, though it's a sore temptation.
                        The Keeper of the Door
                        15
                        Take one pound of the scrag end of the neck of veal and four quarts of water.
                        Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book / Numerous New Recipes Based on Present ...
                        16
                        These recipes must have emanated from Achill Island, where the mutton must be pretty much all scrag.
                        The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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