Meaning

3 senses

  1. (idiomatic, transitive)To scatter or to spread loosely.

    spread by scattering (‘straw’ is archaic)

  2. (transitive)To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.

  3. (obsolete, slang)To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

Examples

135 sentences

  1. Do you have a straw hat?

    У тебе є солом'яний капелюх? — deniko

    deHast du einen Strohhut? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Tom was drinking chocolate milk through a straw.

    Том пив шоколадне молоко через трубочку. — deniko

    deTom trank durch einen Strohhalm Schokoladenmilch. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. May I have a straw, please?

    Можна мені трубочку, будь ласка? — deniko

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  4. That's the last straw.

    Це остання крапля. — triantafillou

    ruЭто последняя капля. — paul_lingvo

    deDas schlägt dem Fass den Boden aus. — sigfrido

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  5. This is the final straw.

    Це остання крапля. — triantafillou

    ruЭто последняя капля. — paul_lingvo

    deDas ist der Tropfen, der das Fass zum Überlaufen brachte. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

From Middle English straugh, strauȝ, straw, strawe, strea, streuw, from Old English strēaw

From Middle English straugh, strauȝ, straw, strawe, strea, streuw, from Old English strēaw, strēow, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”), from *sterh₃- (“to extend, spread”), from *ster- (“barren, infertile”).

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Forms

straws, strawing, strawed, strawed
Base formstraw · to straw
3rd person singularstraws
Present participlestrawing
Past simplestrawed
Past participlestrawed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystraw
he, she, itstraws

Past simpleLesson

all personsstrawed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave strawed
he, she, ithas strawed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill straw

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • spread by scattering (‘straw’ is archaic):strew

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

5 patterns
  • a straw hat
  • straw hat
  • wearing a straw
  • the last straw
  • last straw

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
strategiststrategyA2stratosphereC2stratumstrawberryB1strayC1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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