stravaig
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æɡ
Verb
stravaig (third-person singular simple present stravaigs, present participle stravaiging, simple past and past participle stravaiged)
- (Scotland) to stroll, meander
- 1946, Rebecca West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens I,”, in A Train of Powder,, page 22:
- It is tedious work, training clematis over low posts, so that its beauty does not stravaig up the walls but lies open under the eye; but on the edge of the town many gardeners grew it thus.
- 1964: Mary Poppins (movie).
- Mary Poppins: "Michael, stop stravaiging along behind." (Watch clip on YouTube.)
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Related terms
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strɑˈveɡ/
Verb
stravaig (third-person singular simple present stravaigs, present participle stravaigin, simple past stravaigt, past participle stravaigt)
- to stroll, to roam carelessly
References
- “stravaig, n, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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