▪ I. stramash, n. Chiefly Sc.
(strəˈmæʃ)
Also Sc. straemash.
[Belongs to stramash v.]
1. An uproar, state of noise and confusion; a ‘row’.
| 1821 Galt Ann. Parish xii. 124 This stramash was the first time that I had interposed in the family concerns of my people. 1823 ― R. Gilhaize xiv, There's like to be a straemash amang the Reformers. a 1840 J. Ramsay Poems, Sports Fasten's-een v, Mark ye yon fish..He's laughin' at the grand stramash, And thinks he's safe frae harm. 1840 Barham Ingol. Leg., House-Warm. xxi, Oh! what a fearful ‘stramash’ they are all in! 1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xxxvi, Last year at Oxford, I and three other University men..had a noble stramash on Folly Bridge. That is the last fighting I have seen. 1896 Spectator 28 Mar. 444 The Muscular Christians rebelled at these ideas with a stir and stramash audible to all men. |
2. A state of ruin, a smash. to go (to) stramash: to be ruined.
| 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 2 And fearfu' the stramash and stour, Whan pinnacle cam doun and tow'r. 1829 Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Stramash, a complete overthrow, with great breakage and confusion. 1896 ‘Ian Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 364 It's been rotten,..for a while, an' noo it's fair stramash. 1910 N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Jan. 32/1 My business would go to stramash. |
▪ II. stramash, v. dial.
(strəˈmæʃ)
[app. onomatopoetic: cf. smash.
Notwithstanding the curiously close resemblance in sense, the commonly alleged derivation from It. stramazzare (see stramazon) is out of the question.]
(See quot. 1788.)
| 1788 W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 356 To Stramash; to crush, or break irreparably; to destroy. 1880 J. F. S. Gordon Chron. Keith 70 Choking the lums with a divot (which occasionally stramashed the Tea Pots). |