strolln.

Brit.

/strəʊl/, U.S.

/stroʊl/

Forms: Also 1600s stroule, strowle, 1800s rare strole.

Etymology: Belongs to stroll v.; in sense 2 a new formation on the verb.

1. = stroller n. Obsolete exc. U.S. (rare).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > strolling player

stroller1608

strolling actor1621

strolla1627

show-fellow1756

budgeter1815

omee1859

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C2^v Wee'l entertaine no Mounty-bancking Stroule, No Piper, Fidler, Tumbler through small hoopes.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C4^v Y'are but a Country company of Strowles.

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew v. sig. N1 I'll undertake that these Players..shall give your Guests much content, and move compassion in you towards the poor Strowles.

1900 J. L. Allen Increasing Purpose i. 21 They hired strolls to beat drums that we might not be heard for the din.

2. A walk or ramble taken leisurely, a saunter.

ΘΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking leisurely or idly > an act of

lounge1806

stroll1814

dander1821

toddle1825

saunter1828

paseo1832

pasear1847

potter1897

crawl1905

passeggiata1950

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. vii. 135 When the evening stroll was over.

1817 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. (1818) 55 In my stroll among the lovely inclosures of this neighbourhood, I called to enquire my way at a small farmhouse.

1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage I. xvii. 294 Come, take my arm, and we will have a stroll; it's just the evening for a stroll.

Draft additions 1993

b. figurative. Anything that is easily achieved, without undue effort; a ‘walk-over’; spec. in Baseball = base on balls n. at base n.¹ Phrases 3 (cf. walk n.¹ 4b). colloquial (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > base-playing or running > types of run

home run1856

tally1856

steal1867

homer1868

round trip1895

double steal1897

round-tripper1908

stroll1908

grand slam1920

dinger1968

the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy

ball play?c1225

child's gamec1380

boys' play1538

walkover1861

picnic1870

pudding1884

cakewalk1886

pie1886

cinch1888

snipa1890

pushover1891

pinch1897

sitter1898

pipe1902

five-finger exercise1903

duck soup1912

pud1917

breeze1928

kid stuff1929

soda1930

piece of cake1936

doddle1937

snack1941

stroll1942

piece of piss1949

waltz1968

1908 N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 12 Sept. 6/6 He is not only ‘beating’ his way to first, but he is also walloping the ball when he is not doing a ‘stroll’.

1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 96/2 Stroll, doing something well.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §676/11 Base on balls,..stroll.

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 525/2 Stroll,..2 Anything that is easy to do. c1940; Negro and jazz use.

1981 N.Y. Times 26 Sept. i. 23/1 Mr. Stein had outspent his opponent 2 to 1 and was supposed to win in a stroll.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

strollv.

Brit.

/strəʊl/, U.S.

/stroʊl/

Forms: Also 1600s stroyle, 1600s–1700s stroul, strowl(e, 1700s strole.

Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps this verb and the related stroll n. (which in our quots. appear early in the 17th cent.) may be among the High German words introduced about that time by soldiers: compare German strolch vagabond, †strolchen, †strollen (18th cent.) to wander as a vagrant.

†1. intransitive. To roam or wander from place to place without any settled habitation. Obsolete (but cf. strolling adj.).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > have no fixed abode

waggerc1380

to walk at rovers1528

stroll1603

to live out of (or from) a suitcase (or suitcases)1969

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. C2^v He would..strowle (thats to say trauell) with some notorious wicked floundring companie abroade.

1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. D4^v You had a foolish itch to be an actor, And may strowle where you please.

1684–5 A. Wood Life (1894) III. 123 He had been strouling beyond sea for some time to trail a pyke in the Low Countries.

1705 J. Philips Blenheim 369 Dismay'd, unfed, unhous'd, The Widow, and the Orphan Strole around The Desart wide.

1729 J. Swift Modest Proposal 3 These Mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelyhood, are forced to employ all their time in Stroling, to beg Sustenance for their helpless Infants.

1756 J. Mair tr. Sallust (1793) 20 The Trojans,..who flying their country, under the conduct of Æneas, strolled about, without any settled habitation.

1765 Pet. in McFarlane v. McNab 4 Absent sometimes for weeks together.., strolling about the country selling brandy.

a. To walk or ramble in a careless, haphazard, or leisurely fashion as inclination directs; often simply to take a walk.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or idly

raik?c1350

troll1377

spacea1425

jet1530

spacierc1550

snaffle1611

spatiate1626

saunter1671

stroll1680

trollopa1745

dangle1778

doiter1793

stroam1796

browse1803

soodle1821

potter1824

streek1827

streel1839

pasear1840

toddle1848

bummel1900

1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius iii. 36 Whilst Coxcombs strowl abroad on Holydays, To take the Air.

1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. I. 35 Unhappily one of the Iroquese,..having stroul'd in the Night-time towards our Tents, over-heard what we said, and so reveal'd the Secret.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 3. ⁋2 After the Play, we naturally stroll to this Coffee-house.

1734 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. ii. 13 Your wine lock'd up, your Butler stroll'd abroad.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. v. 64 Cecilia..strolled to a window.

1827 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland ii. 99 They..then strolled along the sands towards the cliff.

1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage I. xvii. 299 A policeman had strolled up during this parley, too late, however, to see the knife.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. xi. 267 He again strolled down to the bridge.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xiv. 268 Some of the gentlemen strolled a little and indulged in a cigar.

in extended use.1760 Inform. Dk. Gordon v. Earls Murray & Fife 10 A vagrant stream strolling [t]hrough chingle, unconfined by any thing that can be called a bank.

†b. Conjugated with be. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 235 I..was stroll'd away that Day to see the Country about.

3. transitive. To walk or pace along (a path) or about (a place).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)]

treadOE

walka1400

overwalk1533

pad1553

stroll1693

cruise1948

1693 R. Gould Corrupt. Times 28 For thee the dirty Drab does strowl the Streets.

1720 J. Swift Progr. Beauty 87 So rotting Celia stroles the Street, When sober Folks are all a-bed.

a1772 Ess. from Batchelor (1773) I. 249 After strolling the Green, arm in arm with L——d M——lt——on.

1810 Splendid Follies III. 119 [He] had been strolling the solitary path of the elm-walk.

1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It vi. 50 Her laughter rang out as we strolled a business street of the suburb.

1974 New Yorker 3 June 76/3 (advt.) Hike forest trails, stroll lovely gardens.

1977 Gay News 24 Mar. 23/1 They taxi to the Toilet and stroll the dock strip at 3 am.

quasi-transitive.1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air II. xviii. 121 He left me to stroll my way back to my solitary dinner.

Draft additions 1993

c. In Baseball, to secure a base on balls (see base n.¹ 18b). More generally, to proceed easily and without undue effort (to a desired result), esp. in sport or other competition. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > secure base

stroll1909

the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)]

romp1928

stroll1976

1909 Baseball Mag. Oct. 30/1 He bats left-handed, choking his bat, and when a ball is close in, usually takes it on his hip and strolls to first.

1914 Harper's Weekly 18 Apr. 23/2 The upshot of it was that the first man strolled.

1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 86 Lancashire strolled to victory by six wickets.

1977 Washington Post 11 Jan. d5/6 King Pellinore, in from the West Coast, strolls to victory in the Man o' War.

1981 Guardian Weekly 27 Sept. 23/5 The multi-million pound stars of AS Roma strolled to their 2–0 victory over Ballymena United.

1984 Christian Sci. Monitor 15 May 28/3 He strolled out of the reading with the lead in Shakespeare's ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.

1988 Autosport 29 Sept. 74/4 Terry Heley's Ford Zephyr strolled easily away from the rest of the field in the early laps but slowed at mid-distance.

d. In dismissive slang phrase stroll on!, used to express astonishment or incredulity at the preceding remark. Cf. to get away at get v. Phrasal verbs 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection] > expressing incredulity at remark

stroll on!1959

1959 W. Hall Long & Short & Tall i. 20 You've been humping this since we left camp? Well, flipping stroll on! That's all. Stroll on.

1959 W. Hall Long & Short & Tall i. 29 Now I've seen everything. Rotten stroll on!

1985 P. Tinniswood Call it Canary xv. 64 ‘Excuse me, but do you by any chance suffer from hay fever?’ ‘No,’ said Brenda Woodhead. ‘Why?’ ‘Well, your eyes are all puffy and you've got a red nose.’—Bloody rotate, Carter. Bloody stroll on.

1990 Beezer 3 Mar. 15 Stroll on! You're bald—how did that happen?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stroll
释义	strolln. Brit. /strəʊl/, U.S. /stroʊl/ Forms: Also 1600s stroule, strowle, 1800s rare strole. Etymology: Belongs to stroll v.; in sense 2 a new formation on the verb. 1. = stroller n. Obsolete exc. U.S. (rare). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > strolling player stroller1608 strolling actor1621 strolla1627 show-fellow1756 budgeter1815 omee1859 a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C2^v Wee'l entertaine no Mounty-bancking Stroule, No Piper, Fidler, Tumbler through small hoopes. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C4^v Y'are but a Country company of Strowles. 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew v. sig. N1 I'll undertake that these Players..shall give your Guests much content, and move compassion in you towards the poor Strowles. 1900 J. L. Allen Increasing Purpose i. 21 They hired strolls to beat drums that we might not be heard for the din. 2. A walk or ramble taken leisurely, a saunter. ΘΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking leisurely or idly > an act of lounge1806 stroll1814 dander1821 toddle1825 saunter1828 paseo1832 pasear1847 potter1897 crawl1905 passeggiata1950 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. vii. 135 When the evening stroll was over. View more context for this quotation 1817 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. (1818) 55 In my stroll among the lovely inclosures of this neighbourhood, I called to enquire my way at a small farmhouse. 1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage I. xvii. 294 Come, take my arm, and we will have a stroll; it's just the evening for a stroll. Draft additions 1993 b. figurative. Anything that is easily achieved, without undue effort; a ‘walk-over’; spec. in Baseball = base on balls n. at base n.¹ Phrases 3 (cf. walk n.¹ 4b). colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > base-playing or running > types of run home run1856 tally1856 steal1867 homer1868 round trip1895 double steal1897 round-tripper1908 stroll1908 grand slam1920 dinger1968 the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy ball play?c1225 child's gamec1380 boys' play1538 walkover1861 picnic1870 pudding1884 cakewalk1886 pie1886 cinch1888 snipa1890 pushover1891 pinch1897 sitter1898 pipe1902 five-finger exercise1903 duck soup1912 pud1917 breeze1928 kid stuff1929 soda1930 piece of cake1936 doddle1937 snack1941 stroll1942 piece of piss1949 waltz1968 1908 N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 12 Sept. 6/6 He is not only ‘beating’ his way to first, but he is also walloping the ball when he is not doing a ‘stroll’. 1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 96/2 Stroll, doing something well. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §676/11 Base on balls,..stroll. 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 525/2 Stroll,..2 Anything that is easy to do. c1940; Negro and jazz use. 1981 N.Y. Times 26 Sept. i. 23/1 Mr. Stein had outspent his opponent 2 to 1 and was supposed to win in a stroll. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). strollv. Brit. /strəʊl/, U.S. /stroʊl/ Forms: Also 1600s stroyle, 1600s–1700s stroul, strowl(e, 1700s strole. Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps this verb and the related stroll n. (which in our quots. appear early in the 17th cent.) may be among the High German words introduced about that time by soldiers: compare German strolch vagabond, †strolchen, †strollen (18th cent.) to wander as a vagrant. †1. intransitive. To roam or wander from place to place without any settled habitation. Obsolete (but cf. strolling adj.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > have no fixed abode waggerc1380 to walk at rovers1528 stroll1603 to live out of (or from) a suitcase (or suitcases)1969 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. C2^v He would..strowle (thats to say trauell) with some notorious wicked floundring companie abroade. 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. D4^v You had a foolish itch to be an actor, And may strowle where you please. 1684–5 A. Wood Life (1894) III. 123 He had been strouling beyond sea for some time to trail a pyke in the Low Countries. 1705 J. Philips Blenheim 369 Dismay'd, unfed, unhous'd, The Widow, and the Orphan Strole around The Desart wide. 1729 J. Swift Modest Proposal 3 These Mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelyhood, are forced to employ all their time in Stroling, to beg Sustenance for their helpless Infants. 1756 J. Mair tr. Sallust (1793) 20 The Trojans,..who flying their country, under the conduct of Æneas, strolled about, without any settled habitation. 1765 Pet. in McFarlane v. McNab 4 Absent sometimes for weeks together.., strolling about the country selling brandy. 2. a. To walk or ramble in a careless, haphazard, or leisurely fashion as inclination directs; often simply to take a walk. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or idly raik?c1350 troll1377 spacea1425 jet1530 spacierc1550 snaffle1611 spatiate1626 saunter1671 stroll1680 trollopa1745 dangle1778 doiter1793 stroam1796 browse1803 soodle1821 potter1824 streek1827 streel1839 pasear1840 toddle1848 bummel1900 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius iii. 36 Whilst Coxcombs strowl abroad on Holydays, To take the Air. 1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. I. 35 Unhappily one of the Iroquese,..having stroul'd in the Night-time towards our Tents, over-heard what we said, and so reveal'd the Secret. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 3. ⁋2 After the Play, we naturally stroll to this Coffee-house. 1734 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. ii. 13 Your wine lock'd up, your Butler stroll'd abroad. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. v. 64 Cecilia..strolled to a window. 1827 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland ii. 99 They..then strolled along the sands towards the cliff. 1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage I. xvii. 299 A policeman had strolled up during this parley, too late, however, to see the knife. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. xi. 267 He again strolled down to the bridge. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xiv. 268 Some of the gentlemen strolled a little and indulged in a cigar. in extended use.1760 Inform. Dk. Gordon v. Earls Murray & Fife 10 A vagrant stream strolling [t]hrough chingle, unconfined by any thing that can be called a bank. †b. Conjugated with be. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 235 I..was stroll'd away that Day to see the Country about. 3. transitive. To walk or pace along (a path) or about (a place). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)] treadOE walka1400 overwalk1533 pad1553 stroll1693 cruise1948 1693 R. Gould Corrupt. Times 28 For thee the dirty Drab does strowl the Streets. 1720 J. Swift Progr. Beauty 87 So rotting Celia stroles the Street, When sober Folks are all a-bed. a1772 Ess. from Batchelor (1773) I. 249 After strolling the Green, arm in arm with L——d M——lt——on. 1810 Splendid Follies III. 119 [He] had been strolling the solitary path of the elm-walk. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It vi. 50 Her laughter rang out as we strolled a business street of the suburb. 1974 New Yorker 3 June 76/3 (advt.) Hike forest trails, stroll lovely gardens. 1977 Gay News 24 Mar. 23/1 They taxi to the Toilet and stroll the dock strip at 3 am. quasi-transitive.1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air II. xviii. 121 He left me to stroll my way back to my solitary dinner. Draft additions 1993 c. In Baseball, to secure a base on balls (see base n.¹ 18b). More generally, to proceed easily and without undue effort (to a desired result), esp. in sport or other competition. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > secure base stroll1909 the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] romp1928 stroll1976 1909 Baseball Mag. Oct. 30/1 He bats left-handed, choking his bat, and when a ball is close in, usually takes it on his hip and strolls to first. 1914 Harper's Weekly 18 Apr. 23/2 The upshot of it was that the first man strolled. 1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 86 Lancashire strolled to victory by six wickets. 1977 Washington Post 11 Jan. d5/6 King Pellinore, in from the West Coast, strolls to victory in the Man o' War. 1981 Guardian Weekly 27 Sept. 23/5 The multi-million pound stars of AS Roma strolled to their 2–0 victory over Ballymena United. 1984 Christian Sci. Monitor 15 May 28/3 He strolled out of the reading with the lead in Shakespeare's ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. 1988 Autosport 29 Sept. 74/4 Terry Heley's Ford Zephyr strolled easily away from the rest of the field in the early laps but slowed at mid-distance. d. In dismissive slang phrase stroll on!, used to express astonishment or incredulity at the preceding remark. Cf. to get away at get v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection] > expressing incredulity at remark stroll on!1959 1959 W. Hall Long & Short & Tall i. 20 You've been humping this since we left camp? Well, flipping stroll on! That's all. Stroll on. 1959 W. Hall Long & Short & Tall i. 29 Now I've seen everything. Rotten stroll on! 1985 P. Tinniswood Call it Canary xv. 64 ‘Excuse me, but do you by any chance suffer from hay fever?’ ‘No,’ said Brenda Woodhead. ‘Why?’ ‘Well, your eyes are all puffy and you've got a red nose.’—Bloody rotate, Carter. Bloody stroll on. 1990 Beezer 3 Mar. 15 Stroll on! You're bald—how did that happen? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1627v.1603
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