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
- (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)
- (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To stretch; make straight.
Adjective
straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)
- (Scotland) straight
Etymology 3
From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.
Adjective
straught (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.:
Anagrams
- Gathurst