jackstraw

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks.

   “It was a cheerful reminder of one’s childhood, and another bond of sympathy between the various branches of the human race, however remotely separated from each other, to find the little shaven-pated lads playing ball in the streets of Hakodadi, or jackstraws within the domestic circle at home.”

2. isim An insignificant person.

   “At the start of 1950, he was a jackstraw in Washington. Then he discovered Communism—almost by inadvertence, as Columbus discovered America, as James Marshall discovered California gold. By the spring of the year, he was a towering figure […]”

3. sıfat Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface.

   “Along the grass-grown wharves,—silver-gray piles which crumbled at the ends into a jackstraw heap of rotting logs,—there was no human stir.”

4. sıfat Of no substance or worth.

   “[…] if you are my daughter, you shall wear these for your father’s sake!—How now, madam! Refuse me! I command you on your obedience to accept of this—I will not be a Jack-straw father—”