scruff

/skrʌf/ noun

Translation

by the scruff of the/your neck › by the back of the neck

ensesinden, ense kökünden

She picked the cat up by the scruff of its neck.504

(Definition of scruff noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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