Middle English Dictionary Entry
strǒuten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | strǒuten v. Also stroute, strouȝten, strut(ten, strote; p. strouted, strut(ed. |
| Etymology | OE strūtian |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To stick out, protrude; bulge, swell; ~ oute (upward); ppl. stroutinge, sticking out, projecting, prominent; swollen, bulging; (b) to bluster, threaten, contend; fight, make a disturbance; say (sth.) forcibly in objection; ~ and staren (striven); ~ ayenward, offer resistance; (c) to display one's clothes proudly or vainly; (d)ppl. stroutinge as adv.: ?proudly, ostentatiously; (e) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 Serm.Liþer lok (Trin-C B.1.45)105 : Ne leue leuedi ne be þi wimpil neuere so ȝelu ne so stroutinde..þat tu ne schalt at euin al cuttid bileuin & tu schalt to bedde gon..nakid.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.385 : Þat tyme men usede stroutynge [Higd.(2): longe; L fluxus] lokkes and longe blasynge cloþes.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3315 : Crul was his heer and as the gold it shoon And strouted [vrr. strut; strecched] as a fanne large and brode, Ful streight and euene lay his ioly shode.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)62b/a : Eueryche beest with longe stroutynge [L prominentes] tuskes in þe mouþ is clouen footed, as þe bore.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)99b/b : Þey þat haueþ þe lepra þat hatte Leonina..here yȝen beþ more..strouȝtinge [L eminentes].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)160a/b : A fysshe þat hatte abatue..bloweþ oute his wombe and makeþ it strowte.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)168a/a : Þe most hiȝe stroutyng parties of cragges ben y-clepid scopuli.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)276a/a : The Camaleon is a beste y-liche to þe euete in body..his rugge bones strouteþ vpwarde as it were a fisshe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)297a/a : Monoceron..haþ..oon horne stroutyng in þe myddil of þe forhed.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)298a/b : Of apes ben fyue maner kyndes..som is..wiþ stroutynge pappes and tetes.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)236/10 : Þe eyȝen waxe rede, and þai strutten [*Ch.(1): ar bolned; L eminent].
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)236/27 : The pannycles ben swollen, and þai strutten or schewen wiþoute the wounde.
- a1456(a1426) Lydg.Mum.Hertford (Trin-C R.3.20)184 : Þeos dotardes with þeyre dokked berdes, Which strowteþe out as þey were made of herdes, [etc.].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)480 : Strowtyn', or bocyn owte: Turgeo.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)180/5 : Of þis vanite beþ not quyte þe men þat..wasche here heuedes and trusse it and drye it and tresse it in many tresses to make it stroute and seme crispe.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)26b/3 : Apostume wynde..is hard, stroutyng, and as a bag full of wynde.
b
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1779 : Hwat are ye, þat are þer-oute, Þat þus beginnen forto stroute?
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)233 : Who so struted oȝainward Anon þai ȝauen hem dintes hard..Þerfore was contek and striif.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)829-31 : Al bigan to strut [Frf: strote; Trin-C: stire] and strijf Agains adam and his wijf; Bituix þam tua to strut [Frf: flite; Göt: strijf] alsua, Þe strang þe weker for to sla.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)3893 : Þen ware þei stede to strutt and stryue.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)1840 : Wenyst þowe..for to scorn me? What evir þow speke or stroute, certis it wol nat be.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.189 : This makyth men mysdo more þan ouȝte ellis, And to stroute and to stare and stryue aȝeyn vertu.
c
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.177 : To ledyn her lust..In quentise of cloþinge for to queme sir Pride, And euere-more stroutynge and no store kepe, And iche day a newe deuyse -- it dullith my wittes.
d
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)443 : Strowtynge [Hrl 221: Strowtyngly], or strowte: Turgide.
e
- (1315) Pat.R.Edw.II404 : Walter Struttyng.