a. Sc. Obs. [f. STURT sb.1 + -SOME.] Disturbing, troublesome, vexatious.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xi. 51. Throw the is raisit sturtsum stryfe.
a. 1585. Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 135. I … counsell thee For to eschew this sturtsome strife.
Hence † Sturtsomeness.
a. 1586. in Pinkerton, Anc. Sc. Poems (1786), 201. Scho list nocht at my layr to leyr: In all this land, forouttin dout, Of sturtsumnes scho hes no peir.
