英语词汇“scragged”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	scragged
释义	▪ I. † scragged, a.¹ Obs. Also 6 skragged. [? Alteration of cragged. Cf. scrag n.²] Rough and irregular in outline; of ground, rugged and barren. Also fig. Cf. cragged a.¹ 1519W. Horman Vulg. 177 Beste hylly grounde is nat that: the whiche is hye vpright, and skragged, but that the whiche is ful of wodde, herbes, and grasse.1641Milton Ch. Govt. Concl. 53 The universities..fed with nothing but the scragged and thorny lectures of monkish and miserable sophistry.1692Bentley Serm. viii. §10 (1724) 331 Is there then any physical deformity in the Fabric of a Human Body; because our Imagination can strip it of its Muscles and Skin, and shew us the scragged and knotty Backbone?1725[see scrag n.¹ 5]. ▪ II. scragged, a.²\|skrægd\| Also 6 skregged, 7 scregged. [f. scrag n.¹ + -ed².] Scraggy. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1592) 1030 Many of vs..after twenty or thirty yeares feeding, are as skregged and leane as we were before.1607T. Twine Patt. Paineful Advent. viii. F, Her bodie of comely stature,..not scregged with leanenesse, nor vndecently corpulent.1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 100 That Noble Person..scragged, as it seems, of a cold and dry temper..was frequently taken with the Colick.1702Vanbrugh False Friend 1, The Handsome, she's all Divinity..; The scragged lean pale Face, has a shape for Destruction.1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 45 That man with the scragged neck.
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