stramm

From Middle Low German stram. Cognate with Dutch stram (possibly also from Low German). Further origin uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ʃtʁam/

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• Rhymes: -am

stramm (strong nominative masculine singular strammer, comparative strammer, superlative am strammsten)

1. tight; taut (tightly fastened)

   Synonym: straff

2. upright (standing tall, as of a soldier)
3. upright; stalwart; staunch; strict; rigorous
4. (somewhat informal) stalwart; burly; muscular
5. (colloquial) drunk

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “stramm” in Duden online
• “stramm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). The figurative sense developed in Prussian military language.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtrɒmː]
• Hyphenation: stramm
• Rhymes: -ɒmː

stramm (comparative strammabb, superlative legstrammabb)

1. (informal) strapping, sturdy, stalwart, burly, muscular, strong (person or behavior typical of such a person)

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) or less commonly Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• stramm in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN