Lexicographical Neighbors of Strammel
Literary usage of Strammel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Club Law: A Comedy Acted in Clare Hall, Cambridge, about 1599-1600 by George Charles Moore Smith (1907)
"Cp. The English Dialect Dictionary: '•strammel (Shropshire). ... What a great
strammel of a pig that is as John bought!" ' Possibly we have the same word in ..."
2. Club Law: A Comedy Acted in Clare Hall, Cambridge, about 1599-1600 by George Charles Moore Smith (1907)
"Cp. The English Dialect Dictionary: 'strammel (Shropshire). ... "What a great
strammel of a pig that is as John bought!"' Possibly we have the same word in ..."
3. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"(2) ' Whad a great strammel of a pig that is as John bought at the far.' Cf.
Gangrel. SCRAT, (1) va and vn to scratch; scratched,—'dunna scrat ..."
4. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"... you can no more conceal it than my Lady strammel can her face; that goodly
face which, in defiance of her Rhenish wine tea, will not be comprehended by ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"Among his Plattdeutsch lays are: 'Mirror of Pomerania • From Every Age> (1869)
and ' Rose-Leaves, en strammel Plattdeutsch.' In High German he wrote ..."
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