Meaning of stramash | Babel Free

Definitions

A tumult or disturbance.

Scotland, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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