scrag
- noun
- /skræɡ/
- Offensive
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flacucho
- The children called him a scrag because of his skinny arms and legs.
Examples
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After weeks of limited food, he had become a real scrag, barely able to lift himself off the ground.
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She looks kind of scrag.
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Near midday, he rounded a bend and came upon a pinched-off little scrag of a person hunkered down under a big hemlock.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the old photograph, the scrag sat on the curb, looking undernourished and weary.
Synonyms
9
5.6
Very thin with almost no fat or muscle
4
2.1
A person who has very little body fat and looks underweight
4
7.5
A very tall thin person who looks awkward
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8.2
A very thin person whose clothes hang loosely
A thin, ragged person or animal that looks weak
A person with very thin, long legs
Compounds
How Thin
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scrag came from the idea of a thin 'neck', so it became a name for a very thin, scrawny person; you can remember it by the familiar word scraggy, which also means 'skinny'.