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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
bang + straw
Pronunciation
Noun
bang straw (plural bang straws)
- (idiomatic, archaic) A farmer's servant, especially a thresher.
1938 December, James Norman Hall, “The Cheerful Tortoise (Doctor Dogbody's Leg)”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 89, number 528, page 9:Strange fastened it to his cane, for he fancied his little stick even on shipboard. With this he sprung onto the bulwark and roared out to Williams: 'I've not struck, sir! Tell your bloody bang-straws to try and hit my stick!'
References
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Bang straw”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. , London: C. Chappell, , →OCLC.