straughtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 straught, from 古期英語 streahte (first and third person singular preterite) and (ġe)streaht (past participle) of streċċan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straight. More at stretch.

動詞

straught

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of stretched

語源 2

From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

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• straucht

動詞

straught (third-person singular simple present straughts, present participle straughting, simple past and past participle straughted)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To stretch; make straight.

形容詞

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

1. (Scotland) straight

語源 3

From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.

形容詞

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

1. (obsolete) Insane, mad, distraught.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:

     My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
     For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
     But my learning is of another degree
     To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 27:

     Therewith ran Goldry upon the King as one straught of his wits, bellowing as he ran, and gripped him by the right arm with both his hands, one at the wrist and one near the shoulder.

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