Straught
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of stretched. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
- 2 To stretch; make straight. Scotland, dialectal
- 1 straight Scotland
- 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"
Example
More examples"My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree"
Etymology
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.
From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).
From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.
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