different between garotte vs scrag
garotte
English
Noun
garotte (plural garottes)
- Alternative spelling of garrotte
Verb
garotte (third-person singular simple present garottes, present participle garotting, simple past and past participle garotted)
- Alternative spelling of garrotte
garotte From the web:
scrag
English
Etymology
Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.
Pronunciation
Noun
scrag (plural scrags)
- (archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal. [from the 16th c.]
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- (archaic) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.
- (archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep.
- (Scotland) A scrog. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (Britain, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.
- A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Verb
scrag (third-person singular simple present scrags, present participle scragging, simple past and past participle scragged)
- (obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.
- Pall Mall Magazine
- An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:
- Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang... ‘That's beastly talk, Thompson. Jolly well take it back or expect a good scragging.’
- Pall Mall Magazine
- To harass; to manhandle.
- 1958, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 15, in Cocktail Time:
- '...I urged him ... to ... try the Ickenham System ... a little thing I knocked together in my bachelor days ... it has a good many points in common with all-in wrestling and osteopathy. I generally recommend it to diffident wooers and it always works like magic...'
- Johnny stared.
- 'You mean you told McMurdo to … scrag her?'
- 1958, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 15, in Cocktail Time:
- To destroy or kill.
Translations
Anagrams
- CAGRs, crags
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