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a-strut, advb. phr.|əˈstrʌt|
Forms: 4 a-strout, o strut, one strowte, 5 on strut, 5–6 a strote, 6 a strute, a strutte, 6–8 astrut, 5– a-strut.
[a prep.1 + strut n.]
1. Sticking out, projecting stiffly; protruding, swollen, puffed up. arch.
c1330Pol. Songs 336 The knif stant a-strout. c1400Sir Isumbras 620 His eghne stode one strowte. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 589/1 Theyre belyes standinge a strutte with stuffing. 1606Choice, Chance, etc. 28 With his armes astrut, like a Scarcrow in a peas-garden. 1785Cowper Task v. 268 Inflated and astrut with self-conceit.
†2. Stubbornly. Obs.
1330R. Brunne Chron. Pref. 194 Þei schoued, þei þrist, þei stode o strut. c1460Towneley Myst. 49, I rede no man from him dray, In way, ne stand on strut.
3. On the strut, strutting, walking grandiosely. |