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Scrabble vs Scrag - What's the difference?

scrabble | scrag |

As verbs the difference between scrabble and scrag

is that scrabble is to scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws while scrag is to hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke.

As a proper noun Scrabble

is a board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.

As a noun scrag is

a thin or scrawny person or animal.

scrabble

English

Verb

(scrabbl)
  • To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Thus I lay for a long time, but afterwards stood up and cried aloud, and shrieked if anyone should haply hear me, calling to Mr. Glennie and Ratsey, and even Elzevir, by name, to save me from this awful place. But there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
  • To move something about by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
    • She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
  • To scribble.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 13
    • David scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
  • To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
    • to scrabble paper

    Derived terms

    * hardscrabble * scrabbler

    See also

    * scrap * scrape * scrapple (a sausage-like food)

    Anagrams

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    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
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    • , 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.}}

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