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scrag

[skrag] / skræg /


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After all, eggs hatched at 40 plus, like mine, represent the scrag end of the market.

From The Guardian Oct. 18, 2014

The expressionist body is a scrag of mutton with big extremities, very unlike the prosperous Renaissance nudes that, however mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scrag part is best made into a pie, or broth.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner

Take some of the middle or scrag of a small neck, and season it, adding or not a few slices of lean bacon or ham.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

If to put over cold pies, make it of a small bare knuckle of veal, or of a scrag of mutton.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

Centre Emma Orr scragged Dow with a stretching cover tackle as the England wing bore down on the line after a charge down.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2025

Vincent Koch secured a turnover after Itoje was scragged at the base to end another promising attack.

From BBC Nov. 16, 2024

Peter Nelson was almost to the tryline when he was scragged by Beauden Barrett.

From Seattle Times Oct. 2, 2019

Petri takes it but he’s scragged and knocks on on halfway.

From The Guardian Oct. 11, 2015

Mr. Sedgwick has told you that I take a sporting chance of being scragged.

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine

The best ones have been breathtaking, beginning with the 5-3 scragging of Chelsea on New Year’s Day 2015, when a Spurs team with five Bale-money hang-overs in the squad ran the champions-in-waiting into the ground.

From The Guardian Sep. 27, 2019

But still De Gea came back for more, bristling like a lovable cartoon puppy, the hardest kid in chess club, seeming to grow in conviction with every scragging.

From The Guardian Apr. 19, 2013

The prop Davit Zirakashvili was in the sin bin then after scragging Richard Wigglesworth from a blatantly offside position.

From The Guardian Oct. 9, 2010

For this she was put to scragging, second-picking the bushes that had a few inferior puffs left on the twigs by swifter hands than hers.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

No amount of hacking and scragging in a scrimmage can damp his ardour or ruffle the serenity of his temper.

From The Prospector by Ralph Connor




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