"straught" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /stɹɔːt/ [UK] Forms: more straught [comparative], most straught [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔːt Etymology: From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|sco|straucht||stretched, stretched out}} Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”), {{cog|sco|strauchten||to straighten}} Scots strauchten (“to straighten”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)
  1. (Scotland) straight Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-straught-en-adj-KkJIdahH Categories (other): Scottish English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: straucht
Etymology number: 2

Adjective

IPA: /stɹɔːt/ [UK] Forms: more straught [comparative], most straught [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔːt Etymology: From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc. Etymology templates: {{m|en|distraught}} distraught, {{m|en|bestraught}} bestraught, {{m|en|forstraught}} forstraught Head templates: {{en-adj}} straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)
  1. (obsolete) Insane, mad, distraught. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-straught-en-adj-jdvqF-R-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /stɹɔːt/ [UK]
Rhymes: -ɔːt Etymology: From Middle English straught, from Old English streahte (first and third person singular preterite) and (ġe)streaht (past participle) of streċċan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straight. More at stretch. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|straught}} Middle English straught, {{inh|en|ang|streahte|pos=first and third person singular preterite}} Old English streahte (first and third person singular preterite), {{m|ang|gestreaht|(ġe)streaht|pos=past participle}} (ġe)streaht (past participle), {{m|ang|streċċan||to stretch}} streċċan (“to stretch”), {{l|en|straight}} straight, {{l|en|stretch}} stretch Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} straught
  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of stretched Tags: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Alternative form of: stretched
    Sense id: en-straught-en-verb-FCn~mzeS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /stɹɔːt/ [UK] Forms: straughts [present, singular, third-person], straughting [participle, present], straughted [participle, past], straughted [past]
Rhymes: -ɔːt Etymology: From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|sco|straucht||stretched, stretched out}} Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”), {{cog|sco|strauchten||to straighten}} Scots strauchten (“to straighten”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} straught (third-person singular simple present straughts, present participle straughting, simple past and past participle straughted)
  1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To stretch; make straight. Tags: Scotland, dialectal
    Sense id: en-straught-en-verb-h1vuFqc8 Categories (other): Scottish English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: straucht
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.",
          "roman": "To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.",
          "text": "My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,\nFor frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;\nBut my learning is of another degree"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Insane, mad, distraught."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Insane",
          "insane"
        ],
        [
          "mad",
          "mad"
        ],
        [
          "distraught",
          "distraught"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Insane, mad, distraught."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/stɹɔːt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "straught"
}

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