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English
Noun
whopstraw (plural whopstraws)
- A rustic, a clod-hopper.
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:Charles had not been employed at Darracott Place above six months, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
- A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail.
a. 1864, John Clare, edited by J. W. Tibble, Selected Poems, published 1965:Parker Clare became a flail-thresher, a whopstraw
References
- Eric Partridge (1970) A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 7th edition, New York: Macmillan, page 956