scrag

Example Sentences

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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 chops look somewhat better than the chopped-up scrag, but the nourishing quality is as good in the latter.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary

Clarice was inwardly convinced that Vivian belonged to the scrag end, so far as character went.

From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah

Let it simmer till it is quite soft, then put in a knuckle of veal, or the scrag end of a leg of mutton, with two or three pounds of gravy beef.

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 Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849