Scrag
[skræg]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
(n.) A rawboned person.
(n.) A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
整理:洛蒂
解釋/意思:
n. anything thin or lean and rough: the bony part of the neck.—v.t. to put to death by hanging.—adjs. Scrag′ged Scrag′gy lean and rough: uneven rugged.—ns. Scrag′gedness Scrag′giness.—adv. Scrag′gily.—adjs. Scrag′gly rough-looking; Scrag′-necked having a long thin neck.—n. Scrag′-whale a finner whale having the back scragged.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Do you know, Jane, I have your little pearl necklace at this moment fastened round my bronze scrag under my cravat? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He'll come to be scragged, won't he? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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