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单词 scrag
释义

scrag

/skraɡ /
verb (scrags, scragging, scragged) [with object]
1 informal, chiefly British Handle roughly; beat up: my brothers were hoping he’d put a foot wrong so they could scrag him...
  • I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble.
1.1 Rugby Grasp (an opponent) by placing an arm around the neck: he was scragged by Budd and Cooper came away with the ball...
  • He was scragged by two players, disappeared under a heap of bodies, but emerged from the bottom of the ensuing ruck none the worse for wear.
  • There is talk that Cameron Ling is having his jumper framed, complete with a picture below of him scragging Buckley to the ground.
  • Again the Australian referee courted controversy when he seemed to indicate a Scottish penalty advantage but gave none when Blair was duly scragged by the green jerseys.
2 archaic or US Kill by strangling or hanging: many an honester man than her has been scragged
2.1US informal, dated Kill; murder: you can think up a nicer way of scragging me than by drowning, because you know I loathe water
noun
1An unattractively thin person or animal: his companion was a thin scrag of a man...
  • She's a dud, a bit of a scrag if you ask me.
  • She is a tall scrag of a woman, crouched in profile, alone on a steep verge above the relentless Florida traffic.
  • They had me and the rest of those scrags and scalawags gyrating all over in some sort of fiendish trance!
2 archaic, informal A person’s neck.‘I don't like this scrag, ‘he answers, pulling at the skin at the top of his neck.’

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a noun): perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag 'neck'. The verb (mid 18th century) developed the sense 'handle roughly' from the early use 'hang, strangle'.

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