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German
Etymology
From Middle High German strac (“straight”), from Old High German *strac (attested in framstrac), from Proto-Germanic *strakkaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with Dutch strak. More at stretch.
Pronunciation
Adjective
strack (strong nominative masculine singular stracker, comparative stracker, superlative am stracksten)
Usage notes
- Now chiefly used in the figurative sense “drunk” or in the adverbial form stracks (“directly”). The literal sense is quite rare but still widely understood. It is commonest referring to people’s posture, chiefly with the verbs liegen, sitzen, stehen, sometimes also in the combination strack und steif.
Declension
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Further reading
- “strack” in Duden online
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Scots
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of strick, or from Old English stræc (“strict”).
Adjective
strack (comparative mair strack, superlative maist strack)
Etymology 2
Verb
strack
- struck
- 1874, The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (page 164)
- It strack the righteous to the ground, / And lifted the destroyer hie.
- 1874, The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (page 164)
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