The back side of the neck.
Sinônimos
Examples for "nape"
Examples for "nape"
1Rhys stared at the animal, the fine hairs on his nape rising.
2And they cuffed him, till the nape of his neck was red.
3The nape of her neck formed a right angle with her vertebrae.
4The new cap also has room to pack hair at the nape.
5Known here as querrequerre, the bird has a powder-blue tuft and nape.
1He thought he had the world by the scruff of the neck.
2But there were no real sustained peaks, precious few all-time scruff-of-the-neck performances.
3Magiere snapped, lunging at the hound to snatch him by the scruff.
4Bizarrely, he held a spitting cat by the scruff of the neck.
5The huge hand holding him by the scruff of the neck tightened.
1A sister of the Peruvian boy referred to had a still larger growth, extending from the nucha all over the back.