straught

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /stɹɔːt/ Rhymes: -ɔːt === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Verb ==== straught (obsolete) Alternative form of stretched. === Etymology 2 === From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”). ==== Alternative forms ==== straucht ==== Verb ==== straught (third-person singular simple present straughts, present participle straughting, simple past and past participle straughted) (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To stretch; make straight. ==== Adjective ==== straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught) (Scotland) straight === Etymology 3 === From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc. ==== Adjective ==== straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught) (obsolete) Insane, mad, distraught. c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.: My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;But my learning is of another degreeTo taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee. === Anagrams === Gathurst