stramash

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Anyhow there was a shake and a roar and a general stramash, and I found myself miles away underground and wedged in as tight as tight.

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  1. To strike, beat, or bang; break; destroy. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch]
  2. A tumult; fray; light; struggle; row; disturbance. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Seaforth profited by the confusion to take the delinquent who had caused this stramash by the arm. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 35.

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  • Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; so I took up a douce earnest confabulation, while the stramash was drawing to a bloody conclusion, with Mr Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman, ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons Oh!" —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • Anyhow there was a shake and a roar and a general stramash, and I found myself miles away underground and wedged in as tight as tight. —  Dream Days
  • He told then they were damned rascals to make such a stramash, and damned fools to think they could frighten the white man by their demonstrations. —  The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
  • Often had he been on the moors, but never had he seen such a stramash among the feathered clan. —  The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
  • Glasgie wy; it's been rotten, a 'wes hearin', for a while, an 'noo it's fair stramash. —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
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  1. Developed from stramazoun, pronounced later something like stramashin, and so taken for *stramashing, the verbal noun of a supposed verb *stramash. Other-wise a made verb, on the basis of stramazoun; cf. squabash, a word of similar type.
  2. See stramash, v.
 

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