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

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'.

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'. Rhymes bag, blag, brag, Bragg, crag, dag, drag, flag, gag, hag, jag, lag, mag, nag, quag, rag, sag, slag, snag, sprag, stag, swag, tag, wag, zag
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