Scrat vs Scrag - What's the difference?
scrat | scrag |
(obsolete) To scratch, to use one's nails or claws.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.286:
*:Euclioas he went from home, seeing a crow scrat upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for malum omen , an ill sign […].
(obsolete, UK) To rake; to search.
* 1978 , A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden , Vintage International 1992, p.89
(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 !!* {{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).
* {{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 .
A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
(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=
As verbs the difference between scrat and scrag
is that scrat is (obsolete) to scratch, to use one's nails or claws while scrag is (obsolete|colloquial) to hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke.As nouns the difference between scrat and scrag
is that scrat is (obsolete) a hermaphrodite while scrag is (archaic) a thin or scrawny person or animal.scrat
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish .Verb
(scratt)- He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.
Etymology 2
Compare Anglo-Saxon (scritta) an hermaphrodite, Irish (scrut) a scrub, a low, mean person.Anagrams
*scrag
English
Noun
(en noun)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 !!
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Verb
(scragg)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.}}