(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “related to Italian stramazzone?”)
Compare Scots stramash. Possibly related to Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) or Italian stramazzone.
stramash (plural stramashes)
stramash (third-person singular simple present stramashes, present participle stramashing, simple past and past participle stramashed)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stramash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Uncertain. Possibly colonial (?) from Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā, “commotion”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “related to Italian stramazzone?”)
Possibly related to Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) or Italian stramazzone.
stramash (plural stramashes)