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straught

adj · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /stɹɔːt/
  • rhymes with -ɔːt

1

adj

Meaning 1

straight

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Scotland

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2

adj

Meaning 2

Insane, mad, distraught.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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3

verb

Meaning 3

Alternative form of stretched.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, obsolete

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4

verb

Meaning 4

To stretch; make straight.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Scotland, dialectal

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History

Etymology

From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.

From Middle English straught, from Old English streahte (first and third person singular preterite) and (ġe)streaht (past participle) of streċċan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straight. More at stretch.