Examples
“I have likewise some things to finish for Chambers before I go, and then I think I shall be able to enjoy a few days of a stravaig ....”
“Hamish, we will stravaig to the South End and see the sheep there and come back hame again.”
“But putting the afternoon's stravaig and the morning's ramble together made quite a decent day's exercise; and I believe the two or three hours in the jungle with its strange sights and sounds, flowers, birds, and beasts, were as interesting as a Phoungies 'funerals.”
“He spok of both of ye all night most beautiful, and how ye used to stravaig on the Saturday afternoons, and of AULD KELVINSIDE.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stravaig’.
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scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Welcome in Wonderland
Real words that I think would fit right into Wonderland/Underland vocabulary. Because I'm a geeky fangirl and that's how I roll. ^_^
widdershins, kenspeckle, thropple, whigmaleerie, swither, kerfuffle, stravaig, guddle, tapsalteerie, clashmaclavers, murgullie, umbersorrow and 37 more...
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bilby Arrives via obsolete Scots word extravage, from Latin vagari to wander. Dec 28, 2007
sionnach I wonder if this is related at all to the word stravag? It doesn't quite seem to fit the context, the way stravag is used in the translation of the Villon poem.
Also, it's hard to look at 'stravag' and not want to add an egg at the beginning and an ant at the end, which suggests a different etymology .
OK, i'll stop babbling now. Dec 26, 2007
bilby Scots - to wander aimlessly. Dec 26, 2007