stramash
/stɹəˈmæʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This stramash was the first time that I had interposed in the family concerns of my people, for it was against my nature to make or meddle with private actions, saving only such as, in course of nature, came before the Session[…]"
- "Then more calling, and bawling, And squalling, and falling, Oh! what a fearful stramash they are all in!"
- "Last year, I […] had a noble stramash on Folly Bridge. That is the last fighting I have seen."
- "The Muscular Christians rebelled at these ideas with a stir and stramash audible to all men."
Etymology
Compare Scots stramash. Possibly related to Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) or Italian stramazzone, although the OED rules out the latter connection (to Italian) and suggests a relationship to English smash.