strut

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɹʌt/, [stɹɐt]
• (US) IPA^(key): /stɹʌt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

From Middle English strouten, struten, from Old English strūtian (“to stand out stiffly, stand out projectingly, exert oneself, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to swell, be puffed up”), from Proto-Indo-European *streudʰ- (“rigid, stiff”), from *(s)ter- (“strong, firm, stiff, rigid”). Cognate with German strotzen (“to bristle up”), Danish strutte (“to bulge, bristle”), Low German strutt (“stiff”). Compare Old Norse þrútinn (“swollen”), Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻 (þrutsfill, “leprosy”), Middle High German striuzen (“to bristle, to ruffle”) ( > obsolete German sträußen, now in Alemannic).

• strout, stroot (dialectal)

strut (plural struts)

1. Protuberance, air pressure

strut (third-person singular simple present struts, present participle strutting, simple past and past participle strutted)

1. (intransitive) To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out.
   • Dryden

     The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.

2. (intransitive, originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:

     Come unto these yellow sands,

     And then take hands:

     Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd

     The wild waves whist,

     Foot it featly here and there,

     And sweet sprites bear

     The burthen. Hark, hark!

     [Burthen, dispersedly] Bow-wow.

     The watch dogs bark.

     [Burthen, dispersedly] Bow-wow.

     Hark, hark! I hear

     The strain of strutting Chanticleer

     Cry cock a diddle dow.

     [Burthen, dispersedly] Cock a diddle dow.

3. (intransitive) To walk proudly or haughtily.

   He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.

   • Shakespeare

     Does he not hold up his head, […] and strut in his gait?

4. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to swell; enlarge; give more importance to.
5. (transitive) To protrude; cause to bulge.

• (To walk proudly or haughtily): swagger

• bestrut
• strut one's stuff
• strutting
• struttingly

From Middle English strout, strut, strot, from strouten, struten (“to strut, swell out”). Cognate with Middle High German strūz (“swelling, contention”). See above.

strut (plural struts)

1. A proud step or walk, with the head erect; affected dignity in walking.

From a contraction of strutted.

strut (comparative more strut, superlative most strut)

1. (archaic) Swelling out; protuberant; bulging.

Origin obscure, but apparently related to strut above. Cognate with Icelandic strútur (“a hood jutting out like a horn”), Norwegian strut (“spout, nozzle”), Swedish strut (“a paper cornet”), Low German strutt (“stiff, rigid”).

strut (plural struts)

Strut supporting a plane's wing

1. A support rod.

   Synonym: rib

2. An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.

strut (third-person singular simple present struts, present participle strutting, simple past and past participle strutted)

1. (transitive, construction) To brace or support by a strut ot struts; hold in place or strengthen by an upright, diagonal, or transverse support.

• sturt, trust

• Rhymes: -ʉːt

strut c

1. An object shaped as a hollow, open cone.
2. cornet; ice-cream cone; also one including the ice cream.
3. Short for glasstrut.

• dumstrut
• glasstrut
• nyfiken i en strut

• kon

• IPA^(key): [stɾut]

strut (plural struts)

1. (male or female) ostrich

• histrut
• jistrut