Meaning of scrag-end | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Cheap cut of mutton or lamb.
2. Leftovers
3. Less desirable part
4. Old useless person

Examples

“When the entire joint, with the exception of the scrag-end (which should always be taken off), is cooked, proportionate time must be allowed for it.”

“At other times she would add⟳ some precious scrag-end of mutton, and the house would be permeated with a wonderful aroma, delicate and substantial at the same time.”

“Today: chilled macaroni, semolina encasing scrag-end of lamb – couscous – and damp Swiss roll.”

“He's saved a special bit of scrag-end for you.”

“He would not wilfully leave⟳ the scrag-ends of a property and a history without a man to take⟳ them up, and possibly bear⟳ them on to redemption ; who could tell⟳ what life might be in the stock⟳ yet ?”

“What are Amoy, Fuchoo, and Ningpo, or Tianshan-peelo and Tian-shan-man-loo to English children but plaguy words conveying no information whatever—mere scrag-ends of a musty gazetteer crammed into their heads !”

“At first, with its demonstration of the hatreds and dissensions that set⟳ the scrag-ends of the victors at each others' throats, and the bewilderment that these induce in the British officer whose job it is to smooth them into some sort⟳ of unity, it instructs rather than moves.”

“The kids, and even Zombie, like⟳ to leave⟳ out little titbits on their plates for me, a bit of fish⟳ here, a bit of chicken there, but if she catches them at it there's hell to pay⟳ 'They're only scrag-ends, Mummy,' they protest⟳. '”

““Indeed, sir,” he added, “it is part of my orders not to set⟳ foot on the other side of that gate myself, not for one scrag-end of a minute”

“On our way back from Hebburn to Gateshead, which was a journey among the very scrag-ends of industrial life, we passed no less than three funerals, each of them with a long black tail to it.”

“As if there wasn't enough sensation already for people disposed to such things, if not on their very doorsteps then surely a short ride⟳ away from their perfumed gardens to the scrag-end of their fair city.”

“Better to go over a cliff than to live⟳ out the scrag-end of your life in a place⟳ like⟳ this.”

“Welcome⟳, ye pitiful scrag-ends of the law!”

“Quint – which is what she calls the old scrag-end sitting in the vinyl-covered institutional armchair by the open⟳ window – does nothing.”

“Mistress Paver received me and invited me in: a scrag-end of a woman, cheerless, sullen.”

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