scrag
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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
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
Boil it up once, and serve it for boiled rabbits, partridges, scrag or knuckle of veal or roast 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
Don't scrag honest civil servants or good clergymen on sight.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Dame Rose Macaulay
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
That setback, getting scragged by Ardie Savea at the back of the breakdown, will have preyed on his mind.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2022
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
Her face was thrust forward almost into the room, her long scragged neck was stretched to its full length, and her whole person advanced with the utmost eagerness.
From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
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
But he would have submitted to any amount of scragging from them because they were his friends and because he loved Gilbert and because they, too, in their turn submitted to being scragged.
From Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
