straught
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom 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
editstraught
Etymology 2
editFrom Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).
Alternative forms
editVerb
editstraught (third-person singular simple present straughts, present participle straughting, simple past and past participle straughted)
Adjective
editstraught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)
Etymology 3
editFrom apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.
Adjective
editstraught (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.
- My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
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