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Definitions: Scrag |
ScragNoun1. Lean end of the neck. 2. The lean end of a neck of veal. Verb1. Strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain". 2. Wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrag" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
Synonyms: ScragSynonyms: scrag end (n), choke (v), garotte (v), garrotte (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scrag |
| English words defined with "scrag": scrag end, Scrag whale. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scrag": Scrog. (references) |
| "Scrag" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Scrag" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scrag": scrag end ♦ scrag end of mutton ♦ scrag him! ♦ scrag horse ♦ scrag whale. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scrag": scrag-end, Scrag-necked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scrag | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scrag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngordhësirë (starveling, walking skeleton, wreck), cofëtinë (carcase, carcass, carrion, hag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لحم رقبة الخروف, ثنى الرقبة, شخص ضعيف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слабо растение, хващам за шията, тънък врат, телешки врат, овнешки врат, обесвам (be hanged, gibbet, halter, string up, suspend, swing, turn off), мършаво животно, мършав човек (weed), линеещо растение, извивам врата на, душа (breast, ghost, heart, inside, lifeblood, mastermind, nature, nose, nuzzle, psyche, quest, scent, smell, smell about, smother, sniff, soul, spirit, stifle, throttle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skrèek (dwarf, shrimp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چیزلاغر, گلوی کسی یاچیزی راگرفتن , خفه کردن (Asphyxiate, Choke, Extinguish, Mute, Shutup, Smolder, Smother, Squash, Stifle, Strangle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle), جانورنحیف , ادم لاغر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tordre le cou qn, personne très maigre, collet de mouton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hals (body recess, cervical, maw, neck, screw neck, shoulder, sleeve, stem, tack, tack of sail, throat), abmurksen (bump off, do in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στραγγαλίζω (choke, garrotte, strangle, strangulate, throttle), ισχνό ζώο, ισχνό άτομο, άσαρκο κόκκαλο, λαιμόσ (gorge, maw, neck, neckband, throat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sovány ember (barebones), tarkó (crag, nape, scruff), sovány állat, nyak (barrel, collar, crag, nab, neck, shank, stud, tang), csenevész állat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agscray torcer o pescoço, terreno pedregoso, pessoa que só tem ossos, pescoço (neck, neck hackles, scruff), magricela (scraggy, scrawny, weed, weedy), estrangular (choke, emote, garotte, garrotte, mug, quell, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, throttle), esqueleto (anatomy, Barebone, carcase, carcass, frame, framework, framing, franc, scaffold, skeleton, skeleton framing, skeleton line), agarrar pelo pescoço. (various references) spânzura (halter, hang), trunchi de arbore descojit, prinde de gât, persoanã slabã, gât (gorge, journal, neck, pull, ravine, sip, spout, swallow, throat), frânge gâtul cuiva, animal foarte slab. (various references) живой скелет, баранья шея. (various references) usukanac, kost i koža (bag of bones). (various references) torcer el pescuezo a, pescuezo (neck, scruff), persona esquelética, ahorcar (hang), agarrar por el pescuezo. (various references) strypa (choke, garrotte, strangle, strangulate, throttle), skranglig person, vrida nacken av, tanig person, mager person, hals (fauces, neck, stem, tack, throat), bakhalsstycke. (various references) เนื้อติ"กระ"ูก, คนที่ผอมมาก. (various references) sıska kimse, kemik torbası (bag of bones), boyun (cervical, cervix, jugular, neck), boğazını sıkmak (throttle), boğarak öldürmek (choke, smother, strangle), asarak öldürmek, çok zayıf kimse (skeleton). (various references) уламок скелі, скрутити в'язи, застосувати захват шиї, живий кістяк, бараняча шия, пень (bole, stub, stump). (various references) súc vật gầy khẳng khiu, người gầy khẳng khiu, cây gầy khẳng khiu xương sườn súc vật. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scrag": scragged, scraggier, scraggiest, scragging, scragglier, scraggliest, scraggly, scraggy, scrags. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crags. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arcs, cars, crag, gars, rags, scag, scar. | |
-2 letters: arc, ars, car, gar, gas, rag, ras, sac, sag. | |
-3 letters: ag, ar, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-r-s" | |
+1 letter: cagers, cargos, cigars, graces, scrags. | |
+2 letters: agarics, cadgers, cargoes, charges, corsage, cougars, curaghs, garcons, garlics, gastric, racings, sacring, scaring, scraggy, scraigh, socager, tragics. | |
+3 letters: acreages, acrogens, agrestic, archings, bracings, cardings, carlings, carnages, carpings, cartages, carvings, chagrins, changers, chargers, choragus, cigarets, clangers, clangors, congrats, cordages, corkages, corsages, courages, cragsman, cragsmen, crannogs, crashing, cravings, creasing, curraghs, cutgrass, disgrace, dogcarts, ergastic, escargot, gearcase, glaciers, glancers, graciles, gracilis, gracioso, gracious, grackles, graphics, grimaces, gripsack, organics, orgasmic, orgastic, sacrings, scarfing, scarping, scarring, scarting, scragged, scraggly, scraighs, scraping, socagers, spagyric, surgical, tracings. | |
+4 letters: arcadings, armagnacs, ascribing, birdcages, brockages, caprifigs, caraganas, carageens, carangids, cardigans, caressing, carousing, carriages, clangours, clearings, cordgrass, cottagers, coverages, crabgrass, crackings, craggiest, crannoges, creepages, cribbages, crusading, decagrams, decigrams, digastric, discharge, disgraced, disgracer, disgraces, echograms, escargots, escarping, gearcases, gimcracks, graceless, graciosos, graecizes, graybacks, grimacers, gripsacks, guacharos, mischarge, oligarchs, orgiastic, packagers, picograms, recasting, rechanges, recharges, rescaling, respacing, roughcast, sacrilege, scalogram, scarphing, scavenger, scraggier, scragging, scraighed, scramming, scrapings, scrappage, scrapping, scrawling, screaking, screaming, scrimmage, scrummage, searching, sergeancy, sociogram, spagyrics, starching, strategic, sugarcane, sugarcoat, surcharge, surfacing, surrogacy, trackages, trackings, truckages, uncharges, vicarages, wreckages. | |
+5 letters: anchorages, archaising, archangels, arrogances, astricting, beachgoers, bricolages, bunchgrass, cablegrams, cairngorms, candygrams, caregivers, carpetbags, carpetings, carrageens, cartilages, cartridges, cashiering, castigator, castrating, catalogers, categories, categorise, cellarages, centigrams, choraguses, cigarettes, cigarillos, ciguateras, cladograms, clangorous, clearwings, coarsening, coastguard, comanagers, cooperages, corrugates, costarring, courageous, cracklings, cradlesong, cragginess, crashingly, crevassing, cryptogams, cuirassing, curettages, curtilages, cutgrasses, decreasing, discarding, discharged, dischargee, discharger, discharges, discourage, disgracers, disgracing, encourages, epigastric, exchangers, factorages, flagrances, fragrances, gasconader, gaucheries, geomancers, gerfalcons, geriatrics, glycosuria, goatsucker, graciously, gramercies, graphemics, graticules, graywackes, greatcoats, greenbacks, grievances, guacharoes, gynarchies, gyrfalcons, hectograms, highchairs, ignorances, increasing, kingcrafts, magistracy, mascaraing, massacring, megaparsec, megasporic, micrograms, mischarged, mischarges, mistracing, organicism, organicist, organismic, outcharges, panegyrics, paregorics, pictograms, pilgarlics, practising, pragmatics, precasting, purchasing, ragpickers, ransacking, reaccusing, rechargers, reclasping, recoinages, rectangles, regnancies, repackages, repechages, restacking, roughcasts, sacrileges, saprogenic, sarcophagi, scalograms, scampering, scapegrace, scarifying, scarpering, scattergun, scattering, scavengers, scrabbling, scraggiest, scragglier, scraiching, scraighing, scrambling, scrappages, scratching, scrimmaged, scrimmager, scrimmages, scrummaged, scrummages, sociograms, stagecraft, sugarcanes, sugarcoats, supercargo, surceasing, surcharged, surcharges, surfacings, surgically, transgenic, ungracious, vagrancies, witchgrass. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 61 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. .- --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100001 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r a g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0061 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369846773 |
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