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Definitions and meaning of straw

straw

Etymology

From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn”). Cognate with Dutch stro, Walloon strin, German Stroh, Norwegian and Swedish strå, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɹɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /stɹɔ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /stɹɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

Noun

straw (countable and uncountable, plural straws)

1. (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
2. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.

   Coordinate terms: hay, stover, shaw, trash

3. (countable) A drinking straw.
4. (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

5. (figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
6. A straw owner

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ストロー

Translations

Adjective

straw (not comparable)

1. Made of straw.

   Synonym: strawen

2. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
3. (figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.

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Verb

straw (third-person singular simple present straws, present participle strawing, simple past and past participle strawed)

1. To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
2. (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

Anagrams

• Swart, swart, warts

Middle English

Alternative forms

• strau, strawe, straugh, strauȝ, strawwe, stre, stree, stra, straa, strey, streaw, strew, streuw

Etymology

From Old English strēaw. Some forms are influenced by Old Norse strá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strau̯/, /streː/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /strɑː/

Noun

straw (plural strawes or stren)

1. The remaining plant material after cultivation; halm, straw.
2. An individual piece or section of straw.
3. (figurative) Anything slight or worthless; the least possible thing.
4. (rare) A measure of weight for candlewax.

Related terms

• strawbery
• strawen

Descendants

• English: straw
• Scots: strae
• Yola: stre, strew

References

• “strau, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-19.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /straf/
• Rhymes: -af
• Syllabification: straw
• Homophone: Straw

Verb

straw

1. second-person singular imperative of strawić

Noun

straw f

1. genitive plural of strawa