Scragged - English meaning
Scragged – definitions in English dictionary
verbHandle roughly; beat up.
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My brothers were hoping he'd put a foot wrong so they could scrag himverbKill by strangling or hanging.
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Many an honester man than her has been scragged
nounAn unattractively thin person or animal.
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His companion was a thin scrag of a man
nounA person's neck.
Usage examples:
‘i don't like this scrag, ‘he answers, pulling at the skin at the top of his neck.’
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Word origin
mid 16th century (as a noun): perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag ‘neck’. The verb (mid 18th century) developed the sense ‘handle roughly’ from the early use ‘hang, stran
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