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- interjection Alternative spelling of
strewth .
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Examples
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It takes so long to get the whole truth, ‘nutin’ but the truth, struth, so help me long live flogging frigging bollixing blogging.
Blogging in Tehran (good) Blogging in Lancashire (bad) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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She is hungry but she will wait. elissa vann struth wrote for awhile and then stopped. she has now resumed.
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He was seen shouting at the aussie crowd in today's race, struth!
On This Inaugural Day: Wheeling and Dealing BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Re#33, struth, nice to be able to agree with you DD.
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Then there's the Conchies what 'as a easy time in clink -- if I see a Conchy in civvy life, I'll knock' is bloody 'ead orf, struth I will.
Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924
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But 'struth! they all ain't in it with the vintage of Assam:
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We 'ollered: "' Ere We Are Again ", and 'struth! but we was dry.
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I shouldn't have expected you to put on such handsome flesh: 'struth I shouldn't.'
England, My England 1907
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But when I met 'er eye -- O,' struth, 'twas strong!
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"I'll do me best, Mr. Piper, struth I will!" he sniffed.
The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900
corylusavellana commented on the word struth
Exclamation. Contraction of "God's truth". Slang.
December 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word struth
See strewth.
December 23, 2008