scrag n.2
1. an unattractive woman.
[ | ![]() | New and Improved Flash Dict. n.p.: Lamb, scragg of a withered old woman]. |
![]() | Sport (Adelaide) 11 Oct. 4/2: I am glad to see you have turned the beer and the two Port scrags down. | |
![]() | Reading (PA) Eagle 20 Mar. 7/2: When Joe College refers to the campus co-ed, it’s usually ‘chippie’ or ‘scrag’. | |
![]() | Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 20 Feb. 🌐 Heather is such as [sic] scrag. She phoned and pretend she was Tracey F. Kerrie phoned her up and goes, ‘Ya big fat ugly scrag.’. | |
![]() | Lex. of Cadet Lang. 319: scrag [...] a woman, especially one who is ugly, sleazy, tartish. | |
![]() | Peepshow [ebook] Two weeks of dark roots, I look like some kind of scrag. | |
![]() | Glorious Heresies 145: [She] stayed otherwise stupidly solid to watch the scrag advance. |
2. (Aus.) an ill-kempt person.
![]() | Coburg Leader (Vic.) 21 Sept. 4/2: He said he’d not ride second class, / With the other Coburg scrags. | |
![]() | Benno and Some of the Push 159: The lad what’s keepin’ co. with me ain’t got no use fer scrags. | ‘The Rivals’ in|
![]() | ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxix 4/4: scrag: A grubby person. | |
![]() | Aus. Word Map 🌐 scrag An unkempt person of meagre means. |
3. (Aus./N.Z.) anything considered inferior.
![]() | Sun. Times (Perth) 29 May 2nd sect. 10/4: He won a Welter purse at Canning Park, and a race or two amongst ‘scrags’ in the country districts. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 180: scrag Anything inferior. [...] Derived from scragends, the poorest cuts of meat. Whaling term C19 for remnants, from British dialect word for useless leftovers. Possibly linked to ‘scrag’, neck. ANZ. |
In compounds
(Aus.) a fight between two girls or women.
![]() | Rubdown [ebook] ‘Suzy was pissed and punched me out.’ ‘Scrag fight? Dead sexy’. |