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scragged
We have found lemma(root) word of scragged : scrag.
Definitions
[skraɡ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- handle roughly; beat up
(e.g: my brothers were hoping he'd put a foot wrong so they could scrag him)
- kill by strangling or hanging
(e.g: many an honester man than her has been scragged)
Phrases:
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, strangle’
[skraɡ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an unattractively thin person or animal
(e.g: his companion was a thin scrag of a man)
- a person's neck
Phrases:
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, strangle’
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