词族 · scrag
中文词源
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。
英语词源
- 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.