straught

English edit

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /stɹɔːt/
Rhymes: -ɔːt

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English straught, from Old English streahte (first and third person singular preterite) and (ġe)streaht (past participle) of streċċan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straight. More at stretch.

Verb edit

straught

(obsolete) Alternative form of stretched

Etymology 2 edit

From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

Alternative forms edit

straucht

Verb edit

straught (third-person singular simple present straughts, present participle straughting, simple past and past participle straughted)

(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To stretch; make straight.

Adjective edit

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

(Scotland) straight

Etymology 3 edit

From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.

Adjective edit

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

(obsolete) Insane, mad, distraught.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
  My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
  For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
  But my learning is of another degree
  To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

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