| slovo | definícia |
scrag
(encz) | scrag,krkovička n: Zdeněk Brož |
scrag
(encz) | scrag,uškrtit v: Zdeněk Brož |
scrag
(encz) | scrag,vyžle Zdeněk Brož |
scrag
(encz) | scrag,zardousit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Scrag
(gcide) | Scrag \Scrag\, v. t. [Cf. Scrag.]
To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the
neck; to kill by hanging. [Colloq.]
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the
day war breaks out. --Pall Mall
Mag.
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Scrag
(gcide) | Scrag \Scrag\ (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry
tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled,
rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, n.]
1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially,
a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in
contempt, the neck.
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Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton
on silver. --Thackeray.
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2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell.
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3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
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Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale
(Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young
of the right whale.
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scrag
(wn) | scrag
n 1: a person who is unusually thin and scrawny [syn: {thin
person}, skin and bones, scrag] [ant: butterball,
fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly]
2: lean end of the neck
3: the lean end of a neck of veal [syn: scrag, scrag end]
v 1: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during
the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: garrote, garrotte,
garotte, scrag]
2: wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [syn:
choke, scrag] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
scrag end
(encz) | scrag end, n: |
scraggly
(encz) | scraggly,nepěstěný adj: Zdeněk Brožscraggly,neudržovaný adj: Zdeněk Brožscraggly,neupravený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
scraggy
(encz) | scraggy,drsný adj: Zdeněk Brožscraggy,vychrtlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Scrag
(gcide) | Scrag \Scrag\, v. t. [Cf. Scrag.]
To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the
neck; to kill by hanging. [Colloq.]
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the
day war breaks out. --Pall Mall
Mag.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Scrag \Scrag\ (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry
tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled,
rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, n.]
1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially,
a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in
contempt, the neck.
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Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton
on silver. --Thackeray.
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2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell.
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3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
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Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale
(Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young
of the right whale.
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Scrag whale
(gcide) | Scrag \Scrag\ (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry
tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled,
rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, n.]
1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially,
a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in
contempt, the neck.
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Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton
on silver. --Thackeray.
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2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell.
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3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
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Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale
(Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young
of the right whale.
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Scragged
(gcide) | Scragged \Scrag"ged\, a.
1. Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy;
as, a scragged backbone.
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2. Lean and rough; scraggy.
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Scraggedness
(gcide) | Scraggedness \Scrag"ged*ness\, n.
Quality or state of being scragged.
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Scragger
(gcide) | Scraggy \Scrag"gy\, a. [Compar. Scragger; superl.
Scraggiest.]
1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock."
--J. Philips.
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2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck."
--Sir W. Scott.
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Scraggiest
(gcide) | Scraggy \Scrag"gy\, a. [Compar. Scragger; superl.
Scraggiest.]
1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock."
--J. Philips.
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2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck."
--Sir W. Scott.
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Scraggily
(gcide) | Scraggily \Scrag"gi*ly\, adv.
In a scraggy manner.
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Scragginess
(gcide) | Scragginess \Scrag"gi*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness.
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Scraggy
(gcide) | Scraggy \Scrag"gy\, a. [Compar. Scragger; superl.
Scraggiest.]
1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock."
--J. Philips.
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2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck."
--Sir W. Scott.
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Scragly
(gcide) | Scragly \Scrag"ly\, a.
See Scraggy.
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Scrag-necked
(gcide) | Scrag-necked \Scrag"-necked`\, a.
Having a scraggy neck.
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scrag end
(wn) | scrag end
n 1: the lean end of a neck of veal [syn: scrag, scrag end] |
scraggly
(wn) | scraggly
adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly
beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door" |
scraggy
(wn) | scraggy
adj 1: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a
long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny,
skinny, underweight, weedy]
2: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged
outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jagged,
jaggy, scraggy] |
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