stram

See also: štram

English

Etymology

Compare German stramm.

Verb

stram (third-person singular simple present strams, present participle stramming, simple past and past participle strammed)

1. To slam; to beat or put down or close violently or noisily.
   • 1890, John Tabois Tregellas, Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse, page 15:

     ... he strammed the glass down 'pon the planchen, an' roared like Tregeagle. Aw!

   • 1892, Sarah Hewett, The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith, page 129:

     ... dawntee stram tha doar zo, […]

   • 2019 August 12, Gloria Cook, Kilgarthen: An uplifting 1940s saga set in Cornwall, Canelo, →ISBN:

     ... strammed Bill's legs with his riding crop.

2. To move forcefully; to stream; to walk forcefully.
   • 1913, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene, Everbreeze, page 213:

     ... strammed by. But I thought maybe you thought I was her, when you come poundin' up the hill; havin' her clo's on, an' her wrop, an' all ; and I've sometimes thought 't when I step out good an' long, an' tilt my head over […]

   • 1925, Meade Minnigerode, Lives and Times: Four Informal American Biographies ..., page 128:

     ... strammed up and down the Brick Row, shoving each other off the side-walks as they went reeling in and out of saloons and inns, the Eagle, the Swan, in search of the good Virginia brandy with which the proceedings of this legal […]

   • 1927, Bertram Waldrom Matz, The Dickensian, page 51:

     ... stramming about like a holiday crowd at the Zoo and in much the same spirit, and roared with laughter when the curtain went up, when the curtain came down, when the gong rang, when Mr. Dickens appeared, […]

   • 1988, Zita Dresner, Redressing the balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 78:

     ... strammed right across the room and sot down; then she huv her old sun-bunnit onto the floor, and draw'd a long breath, and say she— " Well , I vow I'm tired — ben round a shoppin', and shoppin's no small bisness with me. I don't […]"

   • 2004 December 15, Ian Radforth, Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 120:

     '[...] caps, some marched four abreast and others marched or strammed along in single file.' He was used to seeing American parades, the best of which were grand shows of uniformed men skilled in making precision move[s].

References

• Wright, Joseph (1904), The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 803
• “stram”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Smart, S.M.A.R.T., armts., trams, MSTAR, smart, tarms, marts, SMART

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stram/, [sd̥ʁɑmˀ]

Adjective

stram (neuter stramt, plural and definite singular attributive stramme)

1. tight, taut
2. strict, stringent
3. stiff, severe, forbidding, acid, sour
4. pungent, acrid

Inflection

Inflection of stram

	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	stram	strammere	strammest2
indefinite neuter singular	stramt	strammere	strammest2
plural	stramme	strammere	strammest2
definite attributive1	stramme	strammere	strammeste

¹ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
² The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Derived terms

• stramme
• stramhed

References

• “stram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Verb

stram

1. imperative of stramme

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɑm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: stram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Adjective

stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

Declension

Declension of stram
uninflected	stram
inflected	stramme
comparative	strammer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		stram	strammer	het stramst het stramste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	stramme	strammere	stramste
	n. sing.	stram	strammer	stramste
	plural	stramme	strammere	stramste
definite		stramme	strammere	stramste
partitive		strams	strammers	—

Derived terms

• stramheid

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stram

1. imperative of stramme

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “compare stremy”)

Pronunciation

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): [ˈstram]

Noun

stram m inan

1. (Near Masovian) crossbeam in a sleigh that sits on posts embedded in the runners

Further reading

• Władysław Matlakowski (1891), “stram”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 369

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

stram (comparative stramare, superlative stramast)

1. tense, taut, tight

   ett stramt koppel

   a tight leash

   en stram budget

   a tight budget

   en stram honnör

   a stiff salute

2. (figuratively) strict, curt (of manners or the like)

   en stram min

   an austere look on someone's face

Declension

Inflection of stram

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	stram	stramare	stramast
neuter singular	stramt	stramare	stramast
plural	strama	stramare	stramast
masculine plural2	strame	stramare	stramast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	strame	stramare	stramaste
all	strama	stramare	stramaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

• strama

See also

• brysk (“brusque”)
• spänd (“tense”)

References

• stram in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stram in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stram in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• smart, tarms, trams