English-Thai Dictionary

scrag

N คนที่ ผอม มาก  สัตว์ ที่ ผอม มาก  kon-ti-pom-mak

 

scrag

N คอ (คำ สแลง  kor

 

scrag

N เนื้อ ติด กระดูก  nuan-tid-kra-duk

 

scraggly

ADJ ไม่สม่ำเสมอ  ขรุขระ  ไม่ เรียบ  โกโรโกโส  ยุ่งเหยิง  เป็น กระเซิง  rough mai-sa-mam-sa-mor

 

scraggy

ADJ ผอม จน เห็น กระดูก  angular bony scrawny pom-jon-hen-kra-duk

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCRAG

n.[This word is formed from the root of rag, crag, Gr. rack. ] Something thin or lean with roughness. A raw boned person is called a scrag, but the word is vulgar.

 

SCRAGGED, SCRAGGY

a.[supra. ] 1. Rough with irregular points or a broken surface; as a scraggy hill; a scragged back bone.
2. Lean with roughness.

 

SCRAGGEDNESS, SCRAGGINESS

n.Leanness, or leanness with roughness; ruggedness; roughness occasioned by broken irregular points.

 

SCRAGGILY

adv. With leanness and roughness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCRAG

Scrag, n. Etym: [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. Lady MacScrew, who. .. serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. Thackeray.

 

2. A rawboned person. [Low ] Halliwell.

 

3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. Scrag whale (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus ). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

 

SCRAGGED

SCRAGGED Scrag "ged, a.

 

1. Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

 

2. Lean and rough; scraggy.

 

SCRAGGEDNESS

SCRAGGEDNESS Scrag "ged *ness, n.

 

Defn: Quality or state of being scragged.

 

SCRAGGILY

SCRAGGILY Scrag "gi *ly, adv.

 

Defn: in a scraggy manner.

 

SCRAGGINESS

SCRAGGINESS Scrag "gi *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness.

 

SCRAGGY

Scrag "gy, a. [Compar. Scragger; superl. Scraggiest.]

 

1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock. " J. Philips.

 

2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck. " Sir W. Scott.

 

SCRAGLY

SCRAGLY Scrag "ly, a.

 

Defn: See Scraggy.

 

SCRAG-NECKED

SCRAG-NECKED Scrag "-necked `, a.

 

Defn: Having a scraggy neck.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

scrag

scrag |skrag skræɡ | ▶verb ( scrags, scragging, scragged ) [ with obj. ] informal, chiefly Brit. handle roughly; beat up. • dated, informal kill, esp. by strangling or hanging. ▶noun 1 an unattractively thin person or animal. 2 dated, informal a person's neck. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun ): perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag ‘neck ’ The verb (mid 18th cent. ) developed the sense ‘handle roughly ’ from the early use ‘hang, strangle. ’

 

scrag-end

scrag-end ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. the inferior end of a neck of mutton.

 

scraggly

scrag gly |ˈskrag (ə )lē ˈskræɡ (ə )li |(also scraggy |ˈskragē |) ▶adjective ( scragglier, scraggliest ) (of a person or animal ) thin and bony. • ragged, thin, or untidy in form or appearance: a man with a scraggly beard. • (of a plant, tree, or shrubbery ) sparsely foliated or having thin, uneven growth: it was the scraggliest Christmas tree I had ever seen. DERIVATIVES scrag gi ly |-əlē |adverb, scrag gli ness (or scragginess ) noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

scrag

scrag |skrag | ▶verb ( scrags, scragging, scragged ) [ with obj. ] 1 informal, chiefly Brit. handle roughly; beat up. • Rugby grasp (an opponent ) by placing an arm around the neck. 2 archaic or US kill by strangling or hanging. • US informal, dated kill; murder. ▶noun 1 an unattractively thin person or animal. 2 archaic, informal a person's neck. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun ): perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag ‘neck ’. The verb (mid 18th cent. ) developed the sense ‘handle roughly ’ from the early use ‘hang, strangle ’.

 

scrag-end

scrag-end ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. the inferior end of a neck of mutton.

 

scraggy

scraggy |ˈskragi | ▶adjective ( scraggier, scraggiest ) (of a person or animal ) thin and bony. • (also chiefly N. Amer. scraggly ) ragged, thin, or untidy in form or appearance: an old man with a scraggy beard. DERIVATIVES scraggily adverb, scragginess noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

scraggy

scraggy adjective this scraggy mutt just wandered into our yard: scrawny, thin, as thin as a rake, skinny, skin-and-bones, gaunt, bony, angular, gawky, rawboned. ANTONYMS fat.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

scraggy

scraggy adjective a scraggy mongrel: scrawny, thin, thin as a rake, skinny, skin-and-bones, size-zero, gaunt, bony, angular, gawky, rangy, raw-boned, skeletal, emaciated, pinched; lean, slim, slender, lanky, spindly, gangly, gangling; dated spindle-shanked. ANTONYMS fat, plump.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

scrag

scrag /skræɡ /名詞 1 C やせ細った人 [動物 ].2 U C (羊の )首肉 (scrag end ).3 C ｟俗 ｠(人の )首 .

 

scraggly

scrag gly /skrǽɡ (ə )li /形容詞 ｟米話 ｠〈毛 植物などが 〉不ぞろいな ; まばらな ; ごつごつした .

 

scraggy

scrag gy /skrǽɡi /形容詞 ｟主に英 ｠1 〈人 動物が 〉やせこけた .2 ごつごつした, でこぼこの .scr á g gi ness 名詞