- sgrog
- I.the head or side of the head (in ridicule), a hat or bonnet; vb. sgrog, put on the bonnet firmly, scrog; from the Scottish scrog, scrug, English shrug. In the sense of "head" compare sgruigean.II.sgrog, sgrogaganything shrivelled, a shrivelled old woman, old cow or ewe, sgrog, shrivel; from the Scottish scrog, a stunted bush, sgroggy, stunted, English scraggy, Danish skrog, Swed. skrokk, anything shrunken, Norse skrokkr.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.