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Definition of Scrog
1. n. A stunted shrub, bush, or branch.
Definition of Scrog
1. Noun. A stunted or shrivelled bush ¹
2. Noun. (heraldry) The branch of a tree, especially one used as a blazon in Scotland ¹
3. Noun. (Scotland) The crab-apple tree ¹
4. Noun. (dialect) A blackthorn ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrog
1. a disease of the lymph glands [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrog
Literary usage of Scrog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"After an exchange of blows, scrog- frine laughingly observed to Holt, " If you
don't hit ... scrog- gins found backers, and was pitted against Joe Parish, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*scrog. To cut beans with a sickle or hook [BN 84]. scroggy. Twisted, stunted.
scrog Legs. Bandy legs, crooked shanks. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"scrog. A stunted bush. North. Scraggy, abounding in underwood. ... Wore. scrogGY.
Twisted; stunted. East. scrog-LEGS. Bandy lega. .Vor/. ..."
4. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"R., NE dial. scrog(s.) Origin unknown; the explanation given by Stratm.-Bradley
sv, Wall p. 118, is not to be accepted. ..."
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