scrag-necked

Updated: May 13, 2025

The boy, being the son of old parents, was a lean, scrag-necked child, with a lollopping big head, too clever for his years. He had the Lemals' pluck inside him though, for all his unhandy looks; and, of course, his mother thought him a nonesuch.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales