straw
/stɹɔ/ sustantivo B1En español: paja, pajizo, pajiza
- A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
- A drinking straw.
- A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing. · to not care a straw
- A straw owner.
Plural straws
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Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.
An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin, was perched on his head, and the rest of the figure was a blue suit of clothes, worn and faded, which had also been stuffed with straw.
Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light.
But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?”
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