strummel
English
Pronunciation
Noun
strummel (uncountable)
- 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
- 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.
Quotations
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Anagrams
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From strammel
Noun
strummel (uncountable)
Derived terms
- strummle ends (“fragments of tobacco”)
References
- “strummel” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.