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Noun
strummel (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of strommel (“straw”)
c. 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, act 2:Their Work is done already: / The Bratling's born, the Doxey's in the Strummel / Laid by an Autum Mort of their own Crew, / That serv'd for Mid-wife
- Alternative spelling of strommel (“hair”)
1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, Jerry Juniper's Chaunt, page 345:And ne'er was there seen such a dashing prig, / With my strummel faked in the newest twig.
1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 140:But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine, […]
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Etymology
From strammel.
Noun
strummel (uncountable)
- The fragments of unsmoked tobacco and ash left in the bowl of a pipe.
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References
- “strummel”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 30 January 2017, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.