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straw⋅y

[straw-ee]
–adjective, straw⋅i⋅er, straw⋅i⋅est.
1. of, containing, or resembling straw.
2. strewn or thatched with straw.

Origin:
1545–55; straw + -y 1
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straw   (strô)   
n.  
    1. Stalks of threshed grain, used as bedding and food for animals, for thatching, and for weaving or braiding, as into baskets.

    2. A single stalk of threshed grain.

    3. Something of minimal value or importance.

    4. Something with too little substance to provide support in a crisis: Near the end we were grasping at straws.

  1. Something, such as a hat or basket, made of straw.

  2. A slender tube used for sucking up a liquid.

    1. Something of minimal value or importance.

    2. Something with too little substance to provide support in a crisis: Near the end we were grasping at straws.

adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or made of straw: a straw mat.

  2. Containing or used for straw, as a barn or feeding trough.

  3. Of the color of straw; yellowish.

  4. Having little or no value or substance; unimportant.

  5. Of, relating to, or constituting a straw man.


[Middle English, from Old English strēaw; see ster-2 in Indo-European roots.]
straw'y adj.
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