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Scrag vs Garrote - What's the difference?

scrag | garrote |

As nouns the difference between scrag and garrote

is that scrag is (archaic) a thin or scrawny person or animal while garrote is an iron collar formerly used in spain to execute people by strangulation.

As verbs the difference between scrag and garrote

is that scrag is (obsolete|colloquial) to hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke while garrote is to execute by strangulation.

scrag

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal.
  • (archaic) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.
  • (archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep.
  • (Scotland) A scrog.
  • (Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=feed up with noise in cinemas , group=aus.films , author=Shane , date=June 9 , year=1998 , passage=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 !! citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=The Observer AND the Times: Episode 3.7 Revelations , group=aus.tv.buffy , author=Kenny , date=December 18 , year=1999 , passage=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). citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=The Chief takes a hit , group=alt.ozdebate , author=Peter Lucas , date=June 2 , year=2003 , passage=Get a life, you stupid scrag . citation
  • A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

    • Verb

    (scragg)
  • (obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke.
  • To harass, to manhandle
  • * 1958 , , Chapter 15
  • *:'...I urged him ... to ... try the Ickenham System ... a little thing I knocked together in my bachelor days ... it has a good many points in common with all-in wrestling and osteopathy. I generally recommend it to diffident wooers and it always works like magic...'
  • *:Johnny stared.
  • *:'You mean you told McMurdo to ... scrag her?'
  • To kill or destroy.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , author=Steve Augarde , title=Celandine , chapter= citation , isbn=0440422167 , page=162 , passage=But they'll scrag' you for it, you know, if you do. They ' scrag anyone who speaks to me.}}

    Anagrams

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    garrote

    English

    (wikipedia garrote)

    Alternative forms

    * garrotte (UK)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation
  • * 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
    • The Spanish had responded to the insurgency with characteristic brutality. They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote - an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.
  • something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation
    • The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to execute by strangulation
  • to kill using a garrote

    • See also

    * garrot English transitive verbs ----