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Definition of stooshie in English: stooshie(also stushie) nounˈstʊʃi Scottish informal A row or fracas. 〈苏格兰，非正式〉争吵；喧闹 Example sentencesExamples - He also travels a lot and has had several stushies with major airlines.
- But a stooshie has erupted over this collection of artworks.
- What a stushie the professor has caused with his research on the Scots language!
- There has also been something of a stushie over the attribution to Burns of poems not hitherto in his canon.
- The boy prefers ball-handling skills and astute back-up play to physical confrontation; the man is one of the game's great enforcers and loves a stushie.
- The censorship stooshie may stir up some media attention, but it also creates a misrepresentation of a film defined more by ponderous pacing and pretentiousness than by gratuitous sensation.
- And there tends to be a bit of a stushie when the men with clipboards lock horns with the men of the cloth; remember the hoo-hah when they carbon-dated the Turin shroud?
- The last time he spoke about Orkney he caused a right stooshie.
- I remember at the first conference that there was a minor stooshie regarding whether or not the internet was an important issue for young people.
- There was one almighty stushie which has left her extremely guarded when faced with a tape recorder.
- Ask this question and you might find yourself embroiled in a stooshie.
- It is this scene which Birthistle, a Catholic, believes will cause the biggest stooshie among those of her faith.
- Whenever there is a stooshie north of the Border, Irvine, who has an undoubted flair for publicity, is unlikely to be far away.
- As primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, he was at the centre of many a religious stooshie over soft drugs and same-sex marriages and he seemed to revel in the rough-and-tumble.
- As players all we want to do is get on and play rugby, and the almighty stushie at Murrayfield is an unwanted distraction.
Synonyms disturbance, quarrel, scuffle, brawl, affray, tussle, melee, free-for-all, fight, clash, skirmish, brouhaha, riot, uproar, commotion
OriginEarly 19th century: of unknown origin. |