whopstraw

English

whopstraw (plural whopstraws)

A rustic, a clod-hopper.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
  Charles had not been employed at Darracott Place above six months, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail.
- a. 1864, John Clare, J. W. Tibble, editor, Selected Poems, published 1965:
  Parker Clare became a flail-thresher, a whopstraw

1982, Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 7^th edition, p.956his

单词	whopstraw
释义	whopstraw English Noun whopstraw (plural whopstraws) A rustic, a clod-hopper. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax: Charles had not been employed at Darracott Place above six months, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour. A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail. a. 1864, John Clare, J. W. Tibble, editor, Selected Poems, published 1965: Parker Clare became a flail-thresher, a whopstraw References 1982, Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 7^th edition, p.956his
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