Obs. Sc. Also 6 strummall, strwmmill, strumbell. [Of obscure origin and meaning; Jamieson identifies it with a mod.Sc. dial. stumral ‘habituated to stumbling’ (said of a horse), but the passages do not support this.] a. adj. A depreciatory epithet applied to a horse or a stirk. b. sb. A term of contempt for a person.
a. 1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, liii. 11. He stackerit lyk ane strummall awer, That hap schackellit war abone the kne. Ibid., lxxv. 54. Quod scho,… ‘My strwmmill stirk, ȝit new to spane.’
b. 1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lx. 17. Stuffettis, strekouris, and stafische strummellis. Ibid., lx. 62. Ane pyk-thank … Fenȝeing the feiris of ane lord, And he ane strumbell.
