strawy

American  

[straw-ee] / ˈstrɔ i /

adjective

strawier, strawiest

1. of, containing, or resembling straw.

2. strewn or thatched with straw.

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strawy British  

/ ˈstrɔːɪ /

adjective

1. containing straw, or like straw in colour or texture

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Etymology

Origin of strawy

First recorded in 1545–55; straw + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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strawy

We pictured the meek mild creatures where     They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there     To doubt they were kneeling then.

From Slate ● Dec. 25, 2012

Light, strawy manure from the horse-stable serves well for this purpose; but it should be light and free from heat.

From The Home Acre by Edward Payson Roe

We ascended for a long time, and finally emerged into the garret of the building, hot, close, and strawy as a barn-loft.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

There is a roof, a stick chimney, drenched cattle crowding in beneath a strawy barrack, and some forlorn fowls huddling under a cart.

From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler

Luther wrote of the Epistle of James, "In comparison with the best books of the New Testament, it is a downright strawy epistle."

From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton