Strip-me-naked, subs. phr. (old).—Gin. Also STARK-NAKED (q.v.).
c. 1820. Egan, Randle's Diary. Then shall young Bacchus see his glittering shrine Delug'd with strip-me-naked 'stead of wine.
Stripped, adj. and adv. (colloquial).—Unadulterated;
neat
(q.v.).
Stripper, subs. (gaming).—In pl.
= high cards cut wedge-shape, a
little wider than the rest, so as to
be easily drawn in a crooked
game: cf. concaves and convexes,
longs and shorts, etc.
Strive, verb. (Christ's Hospital).—To
write with care: cf. Scrub.
Stroke, verb. (venery).—1. To
copulate: see Ride; also as
subs. = the act of kind (Grose).
2. (venery). To grope (cf. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, viii., xxii.).
Stroker, subs. (old).—A flatterer;
a sycophant.
1632. Jonson, Magnet. Lady, iv. 1. Dame Polish, My lady's stroker.
Stroller, subs. (B. E. and Grose).—See
quots.
c. 1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Strowlers, c. Vagabonds, Itinerants, Men of no settled Abode, of a Precarious Life, Wanderers of Fortune, such as, Gypsies, Beggers, Pedlers, Hawkers, Mountebanks, Fidlers, Country-Players, Rope-dancers, Juglers, Tumblers, showers of Tricks, and Raree-show-men.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Stroller . . . itinerants of different kinds.
Strolling-mort, subs. phr. (Old
Cant).—See quot. 1696 (Harman,
Grose).
c. 1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Strowling-morts, c. pretending to be Widows, sometimes Travel the Countries, making Laces upon Ewes, Beggers-tape, &c. Are light Finger'd, Subtil, Hypocritical, Cruel, and often dangerous to meet, especially when a Ruffler is with them.
1707. Shirley, Triumph of Wit, 'Maunder's Praise of His Strowling Mort. Doxy, oh! thy glaziers shine As glimmar; by the Salomon!
Strommel, subs. (Old Cant).—1.
Straw (Harman, Dekker, B. E.,
and Grose). Also Strammel.
1567. Harman, Caveat, 84. Bene Lightmans to thy quarromes, in what lipken hast thou lypped in this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell?
1641. Brome, Jovial Crew, ii. The bantling's born; the doxy's in the strummel, Laid by an Autumn mort of their own crew That served for midwife.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, xxviii. Sleep on the strammel in his barn.
2. (old).—Hair (Grose and Vaux). Hence to have one's STRUMMEL FAKED IN TWIG = to have it dressed in style; strummel-faker = a barber: cf. Straw-chipper.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood. 'Jerry Juniper's Chant.' With my strummel faked in the newest twig.
Strong. See Come and Go.
Strong Man. To play the part
OF THE STRONG MAN, verb. phr.
(old).—'To be whipped at the
cart's tail'; i.e., 'to push the cart
and horses too' (Grose).
Strue, verb. (schools').—'Construe.'
Strum, subs. (old).—1. A wig
(B. E.). [Grose: 'Cambridge'.]
2. See Strumpet.
