different between strut vs sashay

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??t/, [st??t], [st???t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /st??t/, /st??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English strouten, struten (“to bulge, swell; to protrude, stick out; to bluster, threaten; to object forcefully; to create a disturbance; to fight; to display one's clothes in a proud or vain manner”) [and other forms], from Old English str?tian (“to project out; stand out stiffly; to exert oneself, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *str?t?n?, *str?tijan? (“to be puffed up, swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *streud?- (“rigid, stiff”), from *(s)ter- (“firm; strong; rigid, stiff”). The English word is cognate with Danish strutte (“to bulge, bristle”), Low German strutt (“stiff”), Middle High German striuzen (“to bristle; to ruffle”) (modern German strotzen (“to bristle up”), sträußen (obsolete, except in Alemannic)); and compare Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (þrutsfill, “leprosy”), Old Norse þrútinn (“swollen”).

The noun is derived from the verb. Noun sense 2 (“instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff”) appears to be due to a misreading of a 16th-century work which used the word stroout (strouted (“caused (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell; strutted”)).

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
2. (intransitive, by extension, also figuratively) To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.

   Synonym: swagger
3. (transitive, by extension) To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.
5. (transitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to cause (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell.

   Synonym: distend

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bestrut
• strut one's stuff
• strutting (noun)
• struttingly

Related terms

• strout

Translations

Noun

strut (plural struts)

1. (also figuratively) A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
2. (historical) An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.

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Etymology 2

The origin of sense 1 of the noun (“beam or rod providing support”) is unknown; it is probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *str?t?n?, *str?tijan? (“to be puffed up, swell”): see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Icelandic strútur (“hood jutting out like a horn”), Low German strutt (“rigid, stiff”), Norwegian strut (“nozzle, spout”), Swedish strut (“paper cornet”).

The verb is derived from sense 1 of the noun.

Sense 2 of the noun (“act of strutting”) is derived from the verb: see above.

Noun

strut (plural struts)

1. (chiefly construction) A beam or rod providing support.

   Synonym: rib
2. An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.

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Verb

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

1. (transitive, chiefly construction, also figuratively) To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support.
2. (intransitive) To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.

Alternative forms

• stroot, strout (dialectal)

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably an archaic past participle of strut (“to (cause something to) bulge, protrude, or swell”), now replaced by strutted: see etymology 1.

Adjective

strut (comparative more strut, superlative most strut)

1. (obsolete) Swelling out due to being full; bulging, protuberant, swollen.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) Drunk, intoxicated; fou.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:sober

References

Further reading

• strut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• sturt, trust

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stryt/

Noun

strut m

1. lard

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

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.

Declension

Derived terms

• dumstrut
• glasstrut
• nyfiken i en strut

See also

• kon

Anagrams

• truts

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [st?ut]

Noun

strut (nominative plural struts)

1. (male or female) ostrich

Declension

Derived terms

• histrut
• jistrut

English

Etymology

Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin capt?, frequentative of capi? (“I take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæ?e?/, /sæ??e?/
• Homophone: sachet
• Rhymes: -æ?e?, -e?

Noun

sashay (plural sashays)

1. A chassé.
2. A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.

Verb

sashay (third-person singular simple present sashays, present participle sashaying, simple past and past participle sashayed)

1. (intransitive) To walk casually, showily or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce.
2. (intransitive) To chassé when dancing.
3. (intransitive) To move sideways.
   • 2015, Louise Taylor, Papiss Cissé and Jonny Evans spitting row mars Manchester United’s win over Newcastle (in The Guardian, 4 March 2015)[2]

     Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre- half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty.

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