Citations:strommel

English citations of strommel, strammel, and strummel

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1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, act 5, scene 4:
O, it's the only nourishing meat in the world. No marvel though that saucy, stubborn generation, the Jews, were forbidden it; for what would they have done, well pamper'd with fat pork, that durst murmur at their Maker out of garlick and onions? 'Slight! fed with it, the whoreson strummel-patch'd, goggle-eyed grumble-dories, would have gigantomachised—
1611, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle‎^[1], Tudor Facsimile Texts, published 1914:
My doxy I have by the Salomon a doxy, that carries a kinchin mort in her slat at her backe, besides my dell and my dainty wild del, with all whom I'le tumble this next darkmans in the strommel, and drinke ben bause, and eate a fat gruntling cheate, a cackling cheae, and a quacking cheate.
c. 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew‎^[2], 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
1815, Sir Walter Scott, chapter XXVIII, in Guy Mannering:
Yes, ye are a' altered: you'll eat the goodman’s meat, drink his drink, sleep on the strammel in his barn, and break his house and cut his throat for his pains!

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1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood‎^[3], 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.