strummel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹʌməl/
• Rhymes: -ʌməl

Noun

strummel (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of strommel (“straw”)
   • c. 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew‎^[1], act 2:

     Their Work is done already: / The Bratling's born, the Doxey's in the Strummel / Laid by an Autum Mort of their own Crew, / That serv'd for Mid-wife

2. Alternative spelling of strommel (“hair”)
   • 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood‎^[2], volume 2, Jerry Juniper's Chaunt, page 345:

     And ne'er was there seen such a dashing prig, / With my strummel faked in the newest twig.

   • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 140:

     But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine, […]

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:strommel.

Anagrams

• tummlers

Scots

Alternative forms

• strummle

Etymology

From strammel.

Noun

strummel (uncountable)

1. The fragments of unsmoked tobacco and ash left in the bowl of a pipe.

Derived terms

• strummle ends (“fragments of tobacco”)

References

• “strummel” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.