scrag

scrag
(scragged, scragging)
  1. [with obj.](informal, chiefly Brit.)handle roughly; beat up
    (非正式,主英)粗暴对待;痛打
    ■(Rugby)grasp (an opponent) by placing an arm around the neck
    (英橄)搂住(对手)脖子
    ■(archaic or US)kill by strangling or hanging
    (古或美)扼死;绞死
    ■(US)kill; murder
    (美)杀死;谋杀
noun
  1. an unattractively thin person or animal
    骨瘦如柴的人(或动物)
  2. (archaic, informal)a person's neck
    (古,非正式)人的脖子
语源
  1. mid 16th cent. (as a noun): perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag 'neck'. The verb (mid 18th cent.) developed the sense 'handle roughly' from the early use 'hang, strangle'
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