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English
Etymology
From Old French *estramaille (“straw for bedding”), from Latin stramen (“straw for bedding”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread”).
Pronunciation
Noun
strommel (uncountable)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Straw.
1611, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle, Tudor Facsimile Texts, published 1914:My doxy I have by the Salomon a doxy, that carries a kinchin mort in her slat at her backe, besides my dell and my dainty wild del, with all whom I'le tumble this next darkmans in the strommel, and drinke ben bause, and eate a fat gruntling cheate, a cackling cheae, and a quacking cheate.
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- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Hair.
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