scrags

Noun

scrag (plural scrags)

1. (archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal.
   • In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
2. (archaic) 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, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Penguin, →ISBN, page 34
3. (archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep.
4. (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, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian or The Evening of Redness in the West, Vintage International, →ISBN, page 120
5. (UK, derogatory, slang) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
6. (Australia, derogatory, slang) A rough or unkempt woman.
   • The large guy said that he couldnt sit down the front because of an eye condition, and she said, out loud, "too bad, go down the front".
     This was all heard by most of the crowd, 1 guy called her a bitch, i spoke out loud "what a scrag" which her boyfriend heard, he turned around agro like to defend...1998 June 9, Shane, “feed up with noise in cinemas”, in aus.films (Usenet)

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