strawyadj.
/ˈstrɔːi/ 1. Consisting of, of the nature of, full of straw.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of straw > of or relating to straw
strawy1552
straw1557
stramineous1624
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Strawye, or of strawe, stramineus.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 111 Some birdes can eate the strawie corne, And flee the lime that fowlers set.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 8 A strawie stalke.
1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours iii. 34 The Lateral and Strawy parts [of ripe corn].
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 19 Having some strawey mulchy dung lay it on the ground over the roots.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 604 The strawy litter from the fold-yard.
1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 i. 15 The hay is coarse and strawy.
1881 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects 148 Any long strawy lumps left on the surface will shelter the fly.
2. Made with straw; filled, thatched, or strewed with straw.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of straw
straw1442
strawen1459
strawish1562
strawy1568
sheaved1609
1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 24 The yoked Oxe doth smell his strawie stall.
c1602 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Elegies ii. ix. sig. C6 Rome if her strength the huge world had not fild, With strawie cabins now her courts should build.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 24 The strawy tent, Whear gold, to make their Prince a crowne, they all present.
1736 W. Thompson Nativity 28 The strawy Shed, Where Mary, Queen of Heaven, in humbless Lay.
1859 E. Capern Ballads & Songs (new ed.) 110 Swaddled in a strawy bed, Lies the babe of Bethlehem.
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 30 June 275/1 I departed from Dullborough in the strawy arms of Timpson's Blue-Eyed Maid [a coach].
3. Resembling straw in texture, colour, etc.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow
gull13..
flaxen?1523
palew1547
straw-coloured1585
branlie1589
straw colour1589
flaxy1634
festucine1646
sulphureous1656
flaxenish1661
butter colour1665
strawy1668
straw-yellow1794
bombycinous1796
sulphur-coloured1811
sherry-yellow1813
sulphur-yellow1816
bombasic1825
straw1842
wax-coloured1842
stramineous1845
maize-coloured1852
daffodil1855
daw1856
flax1873
sherry-coloured1875
mastic1890
sulpho-chromic1895
ochroid1897
wheat-coloured1898
sulphurous1899
sulphury1900
tea rose1900
straw-pale1922
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of straw > resembling straw
strawish1562
festucous1646
festucaceous1657
festuceous1658
strawy1668
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 84 A yellowish flower, of a dry strawy consistence.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 93 The water..acquires a yellowish tinge, and a strawy smell.
1879 ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (ed. 6) 105 You'll see him turn a strawy hue.
4. figurative. Light, empty, or worthless as straw.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless > as specific thing
strawy1583
chaffy1594
ficulnean1716
straw-like1742
1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. Answ. Pref. 13 Luther..sayth, the epistle of Iames in comparison of these, is strawye, or like straw.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 24 And there the strawy Greekes ripe for his edge Fall downe before him like a mowers swath. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 32 The iron, the brasse, and the clay of those muddy and strawy ages that follow.
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 76 There~fore by a strawie argument, the Maxim of the Schooles falls to the ground.
1957 T. Hughes Hawk in Rain 20 With love so like fire they dared not Let it out into strawy small talk.
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