Scrap vs Scrag - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between scrap and scrag

is that scrap is a (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion while scrag is a thin or scrawny person or animal.

As verbs the difference between scrap and scrag

is that scrap is to discard while scrag is to hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke.

scrap

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) scrappe, from (etyl) skrap, from

Noun

(en noun)

A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

* De Quincey

I have no materials — not a scrap .

I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.

(usually, in the plural) Leftover food.

Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.

Discarded material (especially metal), junk.

That car isn't good for anything but scrap .

(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.

The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.

pork scraps

Derived terms

* scrap paper * scrapbook * scrapheap * scrappy * scrapyard

Verb

(scrapp)

To discard.

(of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.

To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.

To dispose of at a scrapyard.

To make into scrap.

Derived terms

* scrapper

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

A fight, tussle, skirmish.

We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.

Verb

(scrapp)

to fight

Anagrams

* English terms with multiple etymologies

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

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, 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.

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, 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.}}