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▪ I. † ˈstrummel, n.1 slang. Obs.
Forms: 6–7 strommell, 7 stromell, 7–8 strommel, 8 stramel, strumil, 8–9 strammel, 6–9 strummel.
[perh. a. AF. *estramaille, straw bedding, f. OF. estramer: see stramage.]
1. Straw.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 83 Strommell, strawe. Ibid. 85, I towre the strummel trine vpon thy nabchet and Togman. I see the strawe hang vpon thy cap and coate. 1622Fletcher Beggars' Bush iii. iii, To..Twang dell's, i' the stiromell [sic]. 1641Brome Joviall Crew ii. F 2 b, The Bratling's born, the Doxey's in the Strummel, Laid by an Autum Mort of their own Crew. 1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 265 At Night he will tumble on Strumil or Hay. 1815Scott Guy M. xxviii, You'll eat the goodman's meat, drink his drink, sleep on the strammel in his barn.
2. Hair.
1725New Cant. Dict., Strommel,..Hair, as, She hath good Store of Strommel on her Nob. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Strummel, the hair of the head. To get your strummel faked in twig, is to have your hair dressed in style. 1834Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, With my strummel faked in the newest twig.
3. Comb.: strummell-patch a., a contemptuous epithet for a person.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. v, The horson strummell patch, Goggle-ey'd Grumbledories.
▪ II. † ˈstrummel, a. and n.2 Obs. Sc.
Also 6 strummall, strwmmill, strumbell.
[Of obscure origin and meaning; Jamieson identifies it with a mod.Sc. dial. stumral ‘habituated to stumbling’ (said of a horse), but the passages do not support this.]
a. adj. A depreciatory epithet applied to a horse or a stirk.
b. n. A term of contempt for a person.
a.1500–20Dunbar Poems liii. 11 He stackerit lyk ane strummall awer, That hap schackellit war abone the kne. Ibid. lxxv. 54 Quod scho,..‘My strwmmill stirk, ȝit new to spane.’
b.1500–20Dunbar Poems lx. 17 Stuffettis, strekouris, and stafische strummellis. Ibid. lx. 62 Ane pyk-thank..Fenȝeing the feiris of ane lord, And he ane strumbell. |