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   Scrag

   /skraɡ/

   

   verb

   • 1. handle roughly; beat up. informal British
   • ▪ kill, especially by strangling or hanging. informal British

   noun

   • 1. an unattractively thin person or animal: "his companion was a thin scrag of a man"
   • 2. a person's neck. archaic, informal

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a noun): perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag ‘neck’. The verb (mid 18th century) developed the sense ‘handle roughly’ from the early use ‘hang, strangle’.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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