Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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STRUTE, adj., v., n. Also stroot, struit. [strut]
I. adj. 1. Crammed full and bulging, stretched to capacity (Sc. 1808 Jam.).Sc. 1723 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) III. 175:
For her as mony maids at Bught and Loan Gar milk in Torrents frae strute udders stroan.Per. 1766 A. Nicol Poems 118:
He gave him his dinner; but when he was strute, At the child's disappointment did both laugh and flout.
2. Transf. Filled with drink, intoxicated, “sozzled” (Sc. 1808 Jam.).Sc. 1718 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) I. 71:
When he was strute, twa sturdy Chiels, Held up frae cowping o' the Creels The liquid Logic Scholar.
3. Fig. Swollen with one's own importance, vain-glorious, bumptious (Sc. 1808 Jam.).
II. v. 1. To pack, stuff, stretch with cramming.Sc. a.1758 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) III. 338:
Come strute your wame With good fat Beef and cabadge.
2. To strut, swagger (see etym. note).Rnf. 1813 E. Picken Poems II. 134:
Pensy he strootit alang the North Brig.
III. n. Stubbornness, obstinacy, stiffness of will (Fif. 1825 Jam.), a fig. extension of the adj.
[Mid.Eng. strout(t), to swell, bulge, distend, O.E. strūtian, to stand out stiffly. The adj. forms represent contracted pa.ppl. forms of this, cf. Mid.Eng. strut, bulging, For II. 2., cf. Eng. strut, with a short vowel, which prob. derives from a different ablaut grade of the root. O.Sc. has strout, to strut, 1692.]
