straught
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Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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.
Verb[edit]
straught
Etymology 2[edit]
From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
straught (third-person singular simple present straughts, present participle straughting, simple past and past participle straughted)
Adjective[edit]
straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)
Etymology 3[edit]
From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.
Adjective[edit]
straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)
- (obsolete) Insane, mad, distraught.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
But my learning is of another degree
To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
- My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
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