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noun skrʌfskrəf The back of a person's or animal's neck. （人或动物的）后颈，颈背，后领 he grabbed him by the scruff of his neck 他揪住他的后颈。 Example sentencesExamples - This is the type of album that grabs you by the scruff of the neck, shakes you about a lot, and never once lets up on the fury which drives it.
- It shows how restricted life had become prior to their taking it by the scruff of the neck and shaking many things into a collective, vibrant consciousness.
- Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck.
- Bong Ra's ‘Archie Bunker Disciples’ takes The Prodigy's ‘Firestarter’ by the scruff of the neck and feeds it into several hundred distortion pedals.
- This album grabs you by the scruff of the neck and demands your attention.
- He grabbed them by the scruff of the neck and tossed them out.
- Again and again Oney grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck, both through his dexterity with details and through the horror of the downward spiral of the case itself.
- Late Beethoven tends to take fugues by the scruff of the neck and shake them till they howl.
- The latter song further displayed M.E's new found audience sympathy by dragging a bouncer from the mosh pit by the scruff of his neck for starting on a fan who'd been getting a bit carried away.
- When he gets a properly written scene he seizes it by the scruff of the neck and shakes the juices out of it with Doberman ferocity.
- Beethoven often insists on taking us by the scruff of the neck and giving us a thorough shaking.
- Consider, in this light, ‘to neck someone out of the room’ which is supposed to mean, ‘taking somebody by the scruff of the neck and ejecting from the company.’
- If you were lucky enough to see him perform on stage, you always had the feeling he might suddenly leap into the audience, grab you by the scruff of the neck and haul you up onstage to drink ouzo and dance with him.
- But there was little sense of any acts, or group of acts, collectively seizing 2004 by the scruff of its neck - as the brilliant Garry Mulholland points out in this issue in our definitive review of 2004.
- But then again, some of these same people will probably mention Sviatoslav Richter's famous recording, a benchmark for the Mussorgsky for years - and that certainly reaches out and grabs you by the scruff of the neck.
- It never really holds you by the scruff of the neck and hurls you into its vortex, for there is no vortex to this periodic gangster drama.
- Yet they possess a rare spirit which allows them to grasp life by the scruff of its neck and cope with whatever it throws in the face.
- For most of the journey I pretended to sleep, feeling the accusatory stares of passers-by, ready to grab me by the scruff of the neck and spontaneously demand a ticket inspection.
- I wanted to grab her by the scruff of her fluffy bunny neck.
- SAC has never taken the Fringe by the scruff of its neck and said, ‘How can we use it for our own purposes?’
- As Alfonso Cuaron took Hogwarts by the scruff of the neck and transformed Prisoner of Azkaban into a film worthy of its medium and not just its source, so Mike Newell takes the series one step further.
- The orchestral introduction grips us by the scruff of the neck in the venom with which it makes hunting and stalking aurally incarnate.
- Finally Anton held her up by the scruff of her neck and she drew her limbs in, responding to some kitten memory of being carried that way by her mother.
verb skrʌf [with object]Grasp (an animal) by the scruff of its neck. 抓住（动物）的颈背 Example sentencesExamples - Do you have any idea what it feels like to be seized, scruffed, taken like an animal when you're in heat and feeling like one anyhow?
OriginLate 18th century: alteration of dialect scuff, of obscure origin. As an insult for a person with a dirty or untidy appearance, scruff is an alteration of scurf (Old English), meaning dandruff or a similar skin condition, which comes from the same root as Old English words meaning ‘to gnaw’ and ‘to shred’. The reversal of letters from scurf to scruff is also seen in bird and dirt, originally brid and drit. The scruff of the neck was originally the scuff—the word is recorded from the late 18th century, but its origin is obscure.
Rhymesbluff, buff, chough, chuff, cuff, duff, enough, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, luff, puff, rough, ruff, scuff, slough, snuff, stuff, Tough, tuff noun skrʌfskrəf informal 1British A person with a dirty or untidy appearance. 〈英，非正式〉不整洁的人，邋遢的人 2mass noun Short, bristly hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a while; stubble. several days' worth of scruff
OriginEarly 16th century (in the sense 'scurf'): variant of scurf. The word came to mean 'worthless thing', whence the current sense (mid 19th century). nounskrəfskrəf The back of a person's or animal's neck. （人或动物的）后颈，颈背，后领 he grabbed him by the scruff of his neck 他揪住他的后颈。 Example sentencesExamples - Again and again Oney grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck, both through his dexterity with details and through the horror of the downward spiral of the case itself.
- The orchestral introduction grips us by the scruff of the neck in the venom with which it makes hunting and stalking aurally incarnate.
- As Alfonso Cuaron took Hogwarts by the scruff of the neck and transformed Prisoner of Azkaban into a film worthy of its medium and not just its source, so Mike Newell takes the series one step further.
- The latter song further displayed M.E's new found audience sympathy by dragging a bouncer from the mosh pit by the scruff of his neck for starting on a fan who'd been getting a bit carried away.
- I wanted to grab her by the scruff of her fluffy bunny neck.
- But then again, some of these same people will probably mention Sviatoslav Richter's famous recording, a benchmark for the Mussorgsky for years - and that certainly reaches out and grabs you by the scruff of the neck.
- Finally Anton held her up by the scruff of her neck and she drew her limbs in, responding to some kitten memory of being carried that way by her mother.
- This album grabs you by the scruff of the neck and demands your attention.
- He grabbed them by the scruff of the neck and tossed them out.
- SAC has never taken the Fringe by the scruff of its neck and said, ‘How can we use it for our own purposes?’
- Bong Ra's ‘Archie Bunker Disciples’ takes The Prodigy's ‘Firestarter’ by the scruff of the neck and feeds it into several hundred distortion pedals.
- Consider, in this light, ‘to neck someone out of the room’ which is supposed to mean, ‘taking somebody by the scruff of the neck and ejecting from the company.’
- This is the type of album that grabs you by the scruff of the neck, shakes you about a lot, and never once lets up on the fury which drives it.
- But there was little sense of any acts, or group of acts, collectively seizing 2004 by the scruff of its neck - as the brilliant Garry Mulholland points out in this issue in our definitive review of 2004.
- Late Beethoven tends to take fugues by the scruff of the neck and shake them till they howl.
- When he gets a properly written scene he seizes it by the scruff of the neck and shakes the juices out of it with Doberman ferocity.
- Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck.
- Yet they possess a rare spirit which allows them to grasp life by the scruff of its neck and cope with whatever it throws in the face.
- It never really holds you by the scruff of the neck and hurls you into its vortex, for there is no vortex to this periodic gangster drama.
- It shows how restricted life had become prior to their taking it by the scruff of the neck and shaking many things into a collective, vibrant consciousness.
- For most of the journey I pretended to sleep, feeling the accusatory stares of passers-by, ready to grab me by the scruff of the neck and spontaneously demand a ticket inspection.
- If you were lucky enough to see him perform on stage, you always had the feeling he might suddenly leap into the audience, grab you by the scruff of the neck and haul you up onstage to drink ouzo and dance with him.
- Beethoven often insists on taking us by the scruff of the neck and giving us a thorough shaking.
OriginLate 18th century: alteration of dialect scuff, of obscure origin. nounskrəfskrəf informal 1British A person with a dirty or untidy appearance. 〈英，非正式〉不整洁的人，邋遢的人 2Short, bristly hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a while; stubble. several days' worth of scruff
OriginEarly 16th century (in the sense ‘scurf’): variant of scurf. The word came to mean ‘worthless thing’, whence scruff (sense 1) (mid 19th century). |