scrag

英 [skræg] 美
  • vt. 绞死;扼杀;排挤掉…
  • n. 皮包骨的人或动物;弱不禁风的植物;脖子;羊颈肉(等于scragend)
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scrag 瘦弱的人或动物,皮包骨

可能来自挪威语 skragg,瘦弱的人,最终来自 PIE*sker,弯,转,词源同 shrink,shrivel,shrimp. 由基本词义弯,转引申词义收缩,缩小,瘦弱的人或动物,皮包骨的人。

scrag (n.)
1540s, "lean person or animal, a raw-bones;" perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian skragg "a lean person;" dialectal Swedish skraka "a great, dry tree; a long, lean man," skragge "old and torn thing," Danish skrog "hull of a ship, carcass," Icelandic skröggr, a nickname of the fox); perhaps from root of shrink.