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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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STRAMLACH, n. Also -ich (Abd. 1921 T.S.D.C.). [′strɑmləx]
1. Anything long and trailing, e.g. a rope, a torn piece of dress, etc.Abd. a.1825 in Jam.2 s.v. Cuttumrung:
A wand brank, a cuttumrung aneth her tail, a stramlach and a leurich. [The version in Rymour Club Misc. (1910) I. 173 reads scrappach.]Abd. 1908 in J. G. Michie Deeside Tales 291:
“Stramlach”, a long trailing slender thing.
2. A tall, lanky, gangling person (Bnff. 1920; Bnff., Abd. 1971).
[Dim. or intensive deriv. of Strammel. See -Och, suff.]
