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whopstraw dial.|ˈhwɒpstrɔː|
[f. whop v. (dial. ‘to make up straw into bundles’ E.D.D.) + straw n.]
A country bumpkin.
1821Clare Vill. Minstrel lxvii, The bumptious serjeant struts before his men, And ‘clear the road, young whopstraws!’ will he say. 1850‘H. Hieover’ Pract. Horsem. iii. 42 ‘Here cooms a flyer’..cries some whapstraw. |