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Straught

//stɹɔːt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    straight Scotland
  2. 2
    Insane, mad, distraught. obsolete

    "My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree"

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of stretched. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
  2. 2
    To stretch; make straight. Scotland, dialectal

Etymology

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.

Etymology 2

From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

Etymology 3

From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

Etymology 4

From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.

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