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单词 scruff
释义

scruff

noun
/skrʌf/
/skrʌf/
Idioms
  1. (British English, informal) a dirty or untidy person邋遢的人
    Word Originnoun early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘flakes of skin’): variant of scurf ‘flakes of skin’. The word came to mean ‘worthless thing’, whence the current sense (mid 19th cent.).
Idioms
by the scruff of the/somebody’s neck
  1. roughly holding the back of an animal’s or person’s neck揪着动物(或人)的脖颈儿
    • She grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and threw him out.她一把抓住他的脖子,将他扔了出去。
    • The cat picked up her kitten by the scruff of its neck.猫咬住其幼崽的后颈把它叼了起来。
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