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单词 stramash
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stramash

English

Etymology

(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

  • IPA(key): /stɹəˈmæʃ/
  • Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

stramash (plural stramashes)

  1. (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

stramash (third-person singular simple present stramashes, present participle stramashing, simple past and past participle stramashed)

  1. (Yorkshire, dialect) To make a noise, to cause an uproar, to cause a disturbance[1]
  2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

References

  1. Wright, Joseph (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 803

Anagrams

  • Hamstras, Smarthas

Scots

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly colonial (?) from Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) which also means 'a commotion'.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strəˈmaʃ/

Noun

stramash (plural stramashes)

  1. uproar, din
  2. turmoil; affray; a fight
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