Lexicographical Neighbors of Stroddle
Literary usage of Stroddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1916)
"NE. dial. stroth hurry, walk quickly, stride along, strod stride along; strut;
walk fast without speaking, stroddle stand with legs far apart; idle about, ..."
2. The Life of Philip Thomas Howard, O.P.: Cardinal of Norfolk, Grand Almoner by C F Raymund Palmer (1867)
"There were too a stroddle prior of London, who subscribed the supremacy ; a Cosin of
... stroddle, when he was turned out of the convent of London by ..."
3. The Semantic Development of Words for "walk, Run" in the Germanic Languges by Roscoe Myrl Ihrig (1916)
"NE. dial. stroth hurry, walk quickly, stride along, strod stride along; strut;
walk fast without speaking, stroddle stand with legs far apart; idle about, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"Spet [spot], to spit. Star [staa'r], stare. Stiddy [stid'i], steady.
Stock'ns [stok'nz], stockings. Stom [stom], stem. Stomp [stomp], stamp. stroddle ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"... for the sake of argument, that the Austrians, or a large number of them, had
jumped d-cheval, or, vulgarly speaking a-stroddle, of the rope ..."
6. Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 by John Genest (1832)
"... Mrs. Osborn: Lady stroddle = Mrs. Richardson :—Sir Rowland had cheated Mir-
tilla, an infant orphan, to whom he was guardian, of £3000 a year—old ..."
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