One way to hold it: the dry, hollow, yellow stems left after the grain is taken off the wheat. Light, cheap, easy to break — you spread it on the barn floor, weave it into a hat, or pick up a single stalk between your fingers.
From the word’s history
From Old English strēaw, Proto-Germanic *strawą 'that which is strewn', from PIE *strew- 'to spread around, strew'. The word literally names the stuff you scatter on the ground — so 'cheap material spread about' is built into it from the start.
來自古英語 strēaw，上溯原始日耳曼語 *strawą，字面意思是「被撒開的東西」，再往上是原始印歐語 *strew-（撒、鋪）。也就是說，這個字本來指的就是「隨手鋪在地上的那種東西」——不值錢、到處都是。後來所有「輕、賤、撐不住」的比喻，其實都還踩在這個出身上。
Wiktionary, entry 'straw' (Etymology 1: OE strēaw < PGmc *strawą 'that which is strewn' < PIE *strew-)
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Strawname
- 1
A surname transferred from the nickname.
strawnoun/stɹɔː/
- 1
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- 2
Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
- 3
A drinking straw.
- 4
A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- 5
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
- to not care a straw
- ‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw, Nor all thine arrows to boot; If I get a knop upon thy bare scop, Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
- 6
A straw owner.
- The Bromfield Street offices were housed in a dilapidated but heavily-insured building, owned by a straw for a wealthy downtown real estate developer, surrounded by expensive new commercial developments, and in a city renowned for arson-for-profit.
strawadj/stɹɔː/
- 1
Made of straw.
- straw hat
- 2
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- 3
Imaginary, but presented as real.
- A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
strawverb/stɹɔː/
- 1
To scatter or to spread loosely.
- 2
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
- 3
obsoleteslangTo sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
- It was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the chance passenger.
- I have already alluded to "strawing," which can hardly be described as quackery. It is rather a piece of mountebankery. […] The strawer offers to sell any passer by in the streets a straw and give the purchaser a paper which he dares not sell. Accordingly as he judges of the character of his audience, so he intimates that the paper is political, libellous, irreligious, or indecent.
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