[skraɡ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- handle roughly; beat up
(e.g: my brothers were hoping he'd put a foot wrong so they could scrag him)

- kill by strangling or hanging
(e.g: many an honester man than her has been scragged)


Phrases:

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’

[skraɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an unattractively thin person or animal
(e.g: his companion was a thin scrag of a man)

- a person's neck


Phrases:

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’