scrag /skɹæɡ/noun 7verb 3forms 3 noun7 •(slang, offensive) A rough or unkempt woman.Get a life, you stupid scrag. — 2003 •(slang, offensive) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class. •(Scotland) A scrog.As they entered the foothills they came upon a dusty old diligence with six horses in the traces grazing the dry grass in a fold among the barren scrag. — 1985 •A ragged, stunted tree or branch. •(no longer used) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. — 2007 •(no longer used) The neck, especially of a sheep. •(no longer used) A thin or scrawny person or animal.In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing. — 1946 verb3 •To destroy or kill.[...] I went out lookin' for a line of retreat for my men. A man found me. I abolished him—privatim—scragged him. — 1897 •To harass; to manhandle. •(informal, no longer used) To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out. — 1899 formsscragged · scragging · scrags
