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strommel

/ˈstɹɒməl/

strommel noun: straw.

Noun

strommel (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) Straw.
    • My doxy I have by the Salomon a doxy, that carries a kinchin mort in her slat at her backe, besides my dell and my dainty wild del, with all whom I'le tumble this next darkmans in the strommel, and drinke ben bause, and eate a fat gruntling cheate, a cackling cheae, and a quacking cheate.1611, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle, Tudor Facsimile Texts, published 1914
  2. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) Hair.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:strommel.

Forms of strommel

alternative formstrammel
alternative formstrummel

Origin of strommel

From Old French *estramaille (“straw for bedding”), from Latin stramen (“straw for bedding”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread”).

Words that rhyme with strommel

Questions about strommel

What does strommel mean?
Strommel means straw.
What part of speech is strommel?
Strommel is a noun.
How do you pronounce strommel?
Strommel is pronounced /ˈstɹɒməl/.

Words near strommel in the dictionary

  1. stromelysins
  2. Stromer
  3. Stromers
  4. stromeyerite
  5. Stromme
  6. strommel
  7. Strommen
  8. Strommens
  9. Strommes
  10. Stromness
  11. Stromnessian

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