straught

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɹɔːt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːt

Etymology 1

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

straught

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of stretched

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• straucht

Verb

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

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

Adjective

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

1. (Scotland) straight

Etymology 3

From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.

Adjective

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Gathurst