(n.) Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
(n.) A rawboned person.
(n.) A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The economist and active Liberal Democrat Tim Leunig has crunched the numbers for a couple with four children paying typical rent in Tolworth, an area branded "the scrag end of Kingston Borough" by London's Evening Standard.
(2) Cooking is, to me, about leisure and pleasure not haste and waste (in cooking quickly the best bits of the ingredients, such as the tops off leaks and scrag ends of meat, so good when used in stock, get binned).
(3) Even in Tolworth, described by the Evening Standard as the "scrag end of Kingston borough", a four bedroom house will give you little change from £400 a week.
(4) And even I, with my odd scrags of Russian, understand her reply. "