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demmiblue

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Thu Sep 26, 2019, 09:10 AM Sep 2019

Word of the Day: "stramash" - uproar, chaos, turmoil (Scots; satisfyingly onomatopoeic).

Word of the Day: “stramash” - uproar, chaos, turmoil (Scots; satisfyingly onomatopoeic). Of the sea, in a turbulent fury; of politics, in a state of ruin or wreckage. “To stramash” is to shatter, to bring to destruction.

William McTaggart, ‘The Storm’ (1890) @NatGalleriesSco




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