| 单词 |
stramash |
| 释义 |
▪ I. stramash, n. Chiefly Sc.|strəˈmæʃ|
Also Sc. straemash.
[Belongs to stramash v.]
1. An uproar, state of noise and confusion; a ‘row’.
1821Galt Ann. Parish xii. 124 This stramash was the first time that I had interposed in the family concerns of my people. 1823― R. Gilhaize xiv, There's like to be a straemash amang the Reformers. a1840J. Ramsay Poems, Sports Fasten's-een v, Mark ye yon fish..He's laughin' at the grand stramash, And thinks he's safe frae harm. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., House-Warm. xxi, Oh! what a fearful ‘stramash’ they are all in! 1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xxxvi, Last year at Oxford, I and three other University men..had a noble stramash on Folly Bridge. That is the last fighting I have seen. 1896Spectator 28 Mar. 444 The Muscular Christians rebelled at these ideas with a stir and stramash audible to all men.
2. A state of ruin, a smash. to go (to) stramash: to be ruined.
1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 2 And fearfu' the stramash and stour, Whan pinnacle cam doun and tow'r. 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Stramash, a complete overthrow, with great breakage and confusion. 1896‘Ian Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 364 It's been rotten,..for a while, an' noo it's fair stramash. 1910N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Jan. 32/1 My business would go to stramash.
▪ II. stramash, v. dial.|strəˈmæʃ|
[app. onomatopoetic: cf. smash.
Notwithstanding the curiously close resemblance in sense, the commonly alleged derivation from It. stramazzare (see stramazon) is out of the question.]
(See quot. 1788.)
1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 356 To Stramash; to crush, or break irreparably; to destroy. 1880J. F. S. Gordon Chron. Keith 70 Choking the lums with a divot (which occasionally stramashed the Tea Pots). |
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