🍖 A neck cut 🪤 To strangle 🤼 To handle roughly 🗑️ To throw away 🦴 A thin person

scrag

1 9.9

A thin, bony cut of meat from an animal's neck used for slow cooking

noun
/skræɡ/

: cuello (corte de carne)

The chef prepared a delicious stew using the scrag of the lamb.

Examples

During the butchering process, the butcher set aside the scrag for special recipes.
They served the scrag as a traditional dish at the restaurant.
The whole animal was made of scrag end!

Vanity Fair (2004)

Synonyms

cut

vsscrag

46 2.1

A piece of meat sliced from an animal for cooking

is a specific named neck end not only any sliced piece

neck

vsscrag

23 5.3

A cut of meat from where an animal's head joins its body for slow cooking

is the thinner lean end rather than the whole throat cut

cut of meat

vsscrag

6 2.7

A piece of meat taken from a certain part of an animal

is the specific thin neck end rather than any general piece

scrag end

vsscrag

9.9

A thin, lean piece from the neck of lamb or veal for cooking

is the identical term but written in a slightly different form

cut of mutton

vsscrag

6.8

A piece of meat from an adult sheep that people cook and eat

is the thin neck end specifically from that meat rather than any portion

cut of veal

vsscrag

4.4

A piece of meat from a young calf for eating

is the lean thin neck end often found in that young meat

Compounds

scrag end

9.9

A thin, lean piece from the neck of lamb or veal for cooking

Surface Forms

scrag singular

scrags plural

Etymology

Scrag originally named the thin 'neck' part of an animal in northern English, so butchers use it for the lean cut from the neck of veal or mutton.