scrag

scrag

S0163500 (skrăg)n.1. A bony or scrawny person or animal.2. A piece of lean or bony meat, especially a neck of mutton.3. Slang The human neck.tr.v. scragged, scrag·ging, scrags Slang To wring the neck of; strangle.

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[Perhaps from dialectal crag, neck, from Middle English cragge, from Middle Dutch crāghe, throat.]

scrag

(skræɡ) n1. a thin or scrawny person or animal2. (Cookery) the lean end of a neck of veal or mutton3. (Anatomy) informal the neck of a human beingvb (tr) , scrags, scragging or scraggedinformal to wring the neck of; throttle[C16: perhaps variant of crag; related to Norwegian skragg, German Kragen collar]

scrag

(skræg)

n., v. scragged, scrag•ging. n. 1. a lean or scrawny person or animal. 2. the lean end of a neck of veal or mutton. 3. Slang. the neck of a human being. v.t. 4. Slang. to wring the neck of; hang; garrote. [1535–45; obscurely akin to crag²]

scrag

Past participle: scragged
Gerund: scragging

Imperative
scrag
scrag

Present
I scrag
you scrag
he/she/it scrags
we scrag
you scrag
they scrag

Preterite
I scragged
you scragged
he/she/it scragged
we scragged
you scragged
they scragged

Present Continuous
I am scragging
you are scragging
he/she/it is scragging
we are scragging
you are scragging
they are scragging

Present Perfect
I have scragged
you have scragged
he/she/it has scragged
we have scragged
you have scragged
they have scragged

Past Continuous
I was scragging
you were scragging
he/she/it was scragging
we were scragging
you were scragging
they were scragging

Past Perfect
I had scragged
you had scragged
he/she/it had scragged
we had scragged
you had scragged
they had scragged

Future
I will scrag
you will scrag
he/she/it will scrag
we will scrag
you will scrag
they will scrag

Future Perfect
I will have scragged
you will have scragged
he/she/it will have scragged
we will have scragged
you will have scragged
they will have scragged

Future Continuous
I will be scragging
you will be scragging
he/she/it will be scragging
we will be scragging
you will be scragging
they will be scragging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been scragging
you have been scragging
he/she/it has been scragging
we have been scragging
you have been scragging
they have been scragging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been scragging
you will have been scragging
he/she/it will have been scragging
we will have been scragging
you will have been scragging
they will have been scragging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been scragging
you had been scragging
he/she/it had been scragging
we had been scragging
you had been scragging
they had been scragging

Conditional
I would scrag
you would scrag
he/she/it would scrag
we would scrag
you would scrag
they would scrag

Past Conditional
I would have scragged
you would have scragged
he/she/it would have scragged
we would have scragged
you would have scragged
they would have scragged

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	scrag - a person who is unusually thin and scrawnyskin and bones, thin personindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"spindlelegs, spindleshanks - a thin person with long thin legs
	2.	scrag - lean end of the neckneck - a cut of meat from the neck of an animalcut of mutton - cut of meat from a mature sheep
	3.	scrag - the lean end of a neck of vealscrag endneck - a cut of meat from the neck of an animalcut of veal - cut of meat from a calf
Verb	1.	scrag - strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"garotte, garrote, garrottestrangle, strangulate, throttle - kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
	2.	scrag - wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"chokeconstrict, compress, contract, compact, press, squeeze - squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

Translations

individuo scheletricostrangolaretorcere il collo