Adjective: straicht
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | straichter |
| Superlative | straichtest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
-
1827, Noctes Ambrosianæ, No. XXXII, Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 21, page 481,
-
As Leddy Macbeth! Her gran' high straicht-nosed face, whiter than ashes!
-
"[…]A'll gang the straicht wye doon i' the lichts. A'll be a' richt.” [2010, Jean Duthie, Out of the Farlans, page 126:]
Adjectives inflected like straicht
sallow,
smooth,
slight,
sleigh,
sordid,
somber,
shweet,
shrill,
shrewd,
yellow,
yaller,
hard knock,
DRY,
Greek,
cut short,
unquiet,
unclean,
indiscreet,
chipper,
straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology