strummel
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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.
- 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 edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:strommel.
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Etymology edit
From strammel.
Noun edit
strummel (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
- strummle ends (“fragments of tobacco”)
References edit
- “strummel” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.