stravaig

English

Alternative forms

• stravaige

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æɡ

Verb

stravaig (third-person singular simple present stravaigs, present participle stravaiging, simple past and past participle stravaiged)

1. (Scotland) to stroll, meander
   • 1946: Rebecca West, "Greenhouse with Cyclamens I," in A Train of Powder, p. 22.

     It is tedious work, training clematis over low posts, so that its beauty does not stravaig up the walls but lies open under the eye; but on the edge of the town many gardeners grew it thus.

Related terms

• extravagant

Anagrams

• gravitas