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Strut

//stɹʌt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
Swelling out due to being full; bulging, protuberant, swollen. obsolete
2
Drunk, intoxicated; fou. Scotland, obsolete

Noun

1
A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking. also, figuratively
"Putting on his hat, and thrusting both hands into the pockets of his trousers, he marched with a nonchalant strut out of the room, [...]"
2
A beam or rod providing support.
"This alteration will obviate the necessity for the injudicious iron struts which are now introduced between the backs of the columns and the face of the pilasters, and which, in a practical point of view, afford little or no advantage, except against a direct shock; and even in many such cases they have failed in that object; for in such of them as have been struck, permanent alteration of the strut has taken place, which now has the effect of holding those portions of the shaft with which they are connected out of their places."
3
a proud stiff pompous gait wordnet
4
An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff. historical
5
An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.

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6
brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression wordnet

Verb

1
Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out. intransitive
"Hark, hark, I heare, the ſtraine of ſtrutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe."
2
To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support. also, figuratively, transitive
"Masonry flying arches strutting the retaining walls in Chorley cutting, Manchester-Blackpool line, L.M.S.R."
3
to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others wordnet
4
To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high. also, broadly, figuratively, intransitive
"He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed."
5
To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle. intransitive

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6
To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly. broadly, transitive
"Taking you and your colleagues as the model of modern times, I should almost fear that the John Bull of former days was as different from the John Bull of the present time, as is a broad-shouldered, fearless Highlandman from the dapper cockney who struts the Park by the side of his fellow-milliner."
7
Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell. intransitive, obsolete
"Sometimes [the clitoris] groweth to such a length that it hangeth without the cleft like a mans member, especially when it is fretted with the touch of the cloaths, and so strutteth and groweth to a rigiditie as doth the yarde [penis] of a man."
8
Often followed by out: to cause (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell. obsolete, transitive
"[H]e gains the glitt'ring prize, / And ſtruts the gaudy food of gazing eyes, / A thing—that oft his Footmen may deſpiſe."

Etymology

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English strouten, struten (“to bulge, swell; to protrude, stick out; to bluster, threaten; to object forcefully; to create a disturbance; to fight; to display one's clothes in a proud or vain manner”) [and other forms], from Old English strūtian (“to project out; stand out stiffly; to exert oneself, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *streudʰ- (“rigid, stiff”), from *(s)ter- (“firm; strong; rigid, stiff”). The English word is cognate with Danish strutte (“to bulge, bristle”), Low German strutt (“stiff”), Middle High German striuzen (“to bristle; to ruffle”) (modern German strotzen (“to bristle up”), sträußen (obsolete, except in Alemannic)); and compare Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻 (þrutsfill, “leprosy”), Old Norse þrútinn (“swollen”). The noun is derived from the verb. Noun sense 2 (“instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff”) appears to be due to a misreading of a 16th-century work which used the word stroout (strouted (“caused (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell; strutted”)).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

The origin of sense 1 of the noun (“beam or rod providing support”) is unknown; it is probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”): see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Icelandic strútur (“hood jutting out like a horn”), Low German strutt (“rigid, stiff”), Norwegian strut (“nozzle, spout”), Swedish strut (“paper cornet”). The verb is derived from sense 1 of the noun. Sense 2 of the noun (“act of strutting”) is derived from the verb: see above.

Etymology 4

Etymology 5

Probably an archaic past participle of strut (“to (cause something to) bulge, protrude, or swell”), now replaced by strutted: see etymology 1.

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