scrag
/skɹæɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A scrog.
noun
A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
British usage; Derogatory; Slang
Example Sentences
- "In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing."
- "The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves."
- "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."
- "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 her, when another guy yelled out "if you get agro about that son, ill be over there to show your girlfriend some manners", to which he promplty sat down :-), but after that she put her feet up on the seat in front of her !!"
- "Post scrag fight, Buffy is sweetness and light in her cardy and teeny tiny handbag (plus blonde hair) contrasting with Faith who is lying in bed with her kill-me-thrill-me cutoff shorts (plus brunette hair)."
- "Get a life, you stupid scrag."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skɹæɡ/
- British English: /skɹæɡ/
Usage
- Archaic
- British usage
- Derogatory
- Slang
- Australian usage
- Colloquial
- Obsolete