stramash
English
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “related to Italian stramazzone?”)
Compare Scots stramash. Possibly related to Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) or Italian stramazzone.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editstramash (plural stramashes)
- (Scotland, informal) A tumult or disturbance.
- 1840, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends:
- Then more calling , and bawling,
And squalling , and falling ,
Oh ! what a fearful stramash they are all in !
Verb
editstramash (third-person singular simple present stramashes, present participle stramashing, simple past and past participle stramashed)
- (Yorkshire, dialect) To make a noise, to cause an uproar, to cause a disturbance[1]
- (Scotland, dialect) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stramash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
References
edit- ^ Wright, Joseph (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary[1], volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 803
Anagrams
editScots
editEtymology
editUncertain. Possibly colonial (?) from Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) which also means 'a commotion'.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “related to Italian stramazzone?”)
Possibly related to Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) or Italian stramazzone.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editstramash (plural stramashes)
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