Obs. ln & Sc. strute. [Connected with STRUT v.1; perh. orig. the pa. pple.] So full as to be swollen or distended. Also Sc., intoxicated, ‘fou.’ Also in comb. strut-bellied adj.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades, III. iii. (1592), 313. The state of famished Lazarus … was farre better than the surfetting of the strut-bellied glutton.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XI. xli. I. 348. Many [women] are so frim and free of milke, that all their breasts are strut and full thereof, even as farre as to their arme-holes. Ibid. (1609), Amm. Marcell., 213. When hee beginneth now to returne with his bellie strut and full.
1715. Ramsay, Christ’s Kirk Gr., II. xvii. When he was strute, twa sturdy chiels … Held up … The liquid logic scholar. Ibid. (1724), Wyfe of Auchtermuchty, xiv. The deil cut aff their hands…, That cramd your kytes sae strute yestrein.
