Thin vs Scrag - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between thin and scrag

is that thin is a loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole while scrag is a thin or scrawny person or animal.

As verbs the difference between thin and scrag

is that thin is to make thin or thinner while scrag is to hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke.

As an adjective thin

is having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

As an adverb thin

is not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

thin

English

Adjective

(thinner)

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

thin plate of metal

thin paper

thin board

thin covering

Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.

thin wire

thin string

Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

thin person

Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.

Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.

The trees of a forest are thin'''; the corn or grass is '''thin .

* Addison

Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.

(golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.

Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.

* Dryden

thin , hollow sounds, and lamentable screams

Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.

a thin disguise

Synonyms

* reedy * slender * slim * skinny * waifish * fine * lightweight * narrow * svelte * See also

Antonyms

* thick

Derived terms

* into thin air * razor thin * thin air * thin as a rake * thick and thin * thin-skinned * wear thin

Noun

(en noun)

(philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.

Any food produced or served in thin slices.

chocolate mint thins

potato thins

Verb

To make thin or thinner.

To become thin or thinner.

To dilute.

To remove some plants in order to improve the growth of those remaining.

Derived terms

* thin out

Adverb

(en adverb)

Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

seed sown thin

* Francis Bacon

Spain is thin sown of people.

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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.

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, 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.}}