strummel

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɹʌməl/
  • Rhymes: -ʌməl

Noun

strummel (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of strommel (straw)
    • c. 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, act 2:
      Their Work is done already: / The Bratling's born, the Doxey's in the Strummel / Laid by an Autum Mort of their own Crew, / That serv'd for Mid-wife
  2. Alternative spelling of strommel (hair)
    • 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, Jerry Juniper's Chaunt, page 345:
      And ne'er was there seen such a dashing prig, / With my strummel faked in the newest twig.
    • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 140:
      But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine, []

Quotations

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Anagrams

Scots

Alternative forms

  • strummle

Etymology

From strammel.

Noun

strummel (uncountable)

  1. The fragments of unsmoked tobacco and ash left in the bowl of a pipe.

Derived terms

  • strummle ends (fragments of tobacco)

References

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