straggle
pronunciation
How to pronounce straggle in British English:
UK [ˈstrægl]
How to pronounce straggle in American English:
US [ˈstræɡəl]
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- Noun:
- a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons)
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- Verb:
- wander from a direct or straight course
- go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
Word Origin
- straggle
- straggle: see stretch
- straggle (v.)
- early 15c., "to wander from the proper path, stray, to rove from one's companions," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Norwegian stragla "to walk laboriously"), or a frequentative of Middle English straken "to move, go." Specifically of soldiers, "be dispersed, be apart from the main body," from 1520s. Related: Straggled; straggling.
Example
- 1. They refused to be enslaved and rose in straggle .
- 2. The long straggle between the strikers and their employers has not yet played out .
- 3. Stresses the management , to create the characteristic , the straggle first-class , constructs the student 's to like , the guardian to satisfy , the social creditworthiness high and the international trail connection and english education center .
- 4. The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the straggle ; not to have conquered but to have fought well .
- 5. Gays attribute this , in part , to their own straggle for their rights and pride in their orientation .