单词 | to screw an animal's neck |
释义 | > as lemmasto screw an animal's neck P3. to screw a person's neck: to strangle a person. Also to screw an animal's neck: to kill an animal by twisting or wringing its neck. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by strangling aworryc885 achokeOE astrangle1297 strangle13.. worry14.. choke1303 weary1340 gnarec1380 athroatc1400 enstranglec1400 gagc1440 throttlec1450 estrangle1483 stifle1548 snarl1563 thrapple1570 quackle1622 bowstring1803 scrag1823 strangulate1846 mug1866 to screw a person's neck1872 garrotte1878 guzzle1885 to screw an animal's neck1888 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Dec. 46/1 I'll screw his neck. 1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. ii. 25 I wish you'd screw that bird's neck, Slivers; he's too clever by half. 1913 Standard 24 Apr. 5/5 His wife had threatened to screw his neck. 1979 T. Keneally Confederates vi. 116 He bent to a chicken, getting it all at once in his hands. He screwed its neck and tied it with cord. 2010 B. Knight According to Evid. viii. 77 I could just about accept her screwing that fellow's neck, but I don't see a motive. < as lemmas |
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