| ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| brag | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: boss |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| bullyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| crag | (noun) a steep rugged rock or cliff | - |
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| dishrag | (noun) a cloth for washing dishes | Synonyms: dishcloth |
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| drag | (noun) the act of dragging (pulling with force) | - |
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| (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: puff, pull |
| (noun) clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man) | - |
| (noun) something tedious and boring | - |
| (noun) something that slows or delays progress | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid | Synonyms: retarding force |
| (verb) proceed for an extended period of time | Synonyms: drag on, drag out |
| (verb) persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting | - |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: draw, puff |
| (verb) pull, as against a resistance | - |
| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, hale, haul |
| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: dredge |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back, trail |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: scuff |
| (verb) move slowly and as if with great effort | - |
| (verb) use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it | - |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
| dustrag | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, duster |
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| rag | (noun) a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students) | - |
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| (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: shred, tag, tag end, tatter |
| (noun) newspaper with half-size pages | Synonyms: sheet, tabloid |
| (noun) music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) | Synonyms: ragtime |
| (noun) a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities | Synonyms: rag week |
| (verb) break into lumps before sorting | - |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
| (verb) play in ragtime | - |
| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, torment |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rile, vex |
| scrag | (noun) the lean end of a neck of veal | Synonyms: scrag end |
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| (noun) lean end of the neck | - |
| (noun) a person who is unusually thin and scrawny | Synonyms: skin and bones, thin person |
| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, garrotte |
| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: choke |
| sprag | (noun) a chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline | - |
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| (noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: pitprop |
| washrag | (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, flannel, washcloth |
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