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词汇 stoush
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Definition of stoush in English:

stoush

verb staʊʃ
[with object]Australian, NZ informal
  • Hit; fight with.

    打,击;与…打架

    get out of that car while I stoush you

    从车里滚出来,看我揍你!

    Synonyms
    fight, skirmish, scuffle, tussle, exchange blows, come to blows, struggle, grapple, wrestle, scrimmage
noun staʊʃ
Australian, NZ informal
  • A brawl or other fight.

    吵架;打架

    the prospect of the game deteriorating into a stoush always kept me hooked
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We'll be looking at a legal stoush over the ownership of six paintings by Gustav Klimt, currently the property of the Austrian government.
    • We love a stoush as much as the next political junkie, but the performance of these two in the past week has crossed the threshold into boorishness.
    • The stoush between the timber industry, the conservation movement and governments, which went on for decades, was supposed to be all sorted out by now.
    • A stoush is brewing between state and territory governments and their federal counterpart, over yesterday's damning report into mental health.
    • And, contrary to what some mothers will tell you at a dinner party, I don't think most people, both males and females, have a problem with the odd stoush on the footy field.
    • What's the most bizarre stoush or fight that you've come across in your years of watching these kinds of conflicts?
    • The diplomatic stoush over whaling is intensifying.
    • The usual stoush over education guarantees the usual old left wing/right wing divide, arguments about po-mo, deconstruction, etc.
    • Their target is the unacceptable face of global capitalism, and their biggest stoush to date was seen on the streets of Seattle last December.
    • For farming families - where assets, work, and lifestyle are all rolled into one - these types of legal stoushes can fundamentally destabilise a family's entire existence.
    • There have been many occasions where his judgment has been called into question - especially his tendency to favour the right over moderates in internal stoushes.
    • These are not your old-style employee-employer stoushes over wages, conditions and who shares the profits but a far more complex beast; Australian companies and workers attempting to survive in a world without economic borders.
    • Interestingly, this has now devolved into a potential stoush between the Mayor and his Deputy.
    • As I say, for many years I was an employer in the association of waterfront employers, and we had some right stoushes, I can tell members.
    • By jingo, there are some good stoushes between media and governments at the moment.
    • I'd noticed something similar during a number of stoushes on censorship.
    • Of course, I can imagine that governments and members of the Bench will always be involved in public stoushes about what that area actually means, and what it doesn't mean.
    • They will take human form and start rowdy polling booth stoushes on election day.
    • As with most political stoushes, the numbers are all important.
    • It's been a year of predictable stoushes and controversies that seem to have come out of nowhere.
    Synonyms
    fight, fist fight, skirmish, scuffle, tussle, fracas, scrimmage, fray, melee, rumpus, altercation, wrangle, clash, free-for-all, scrum, brouhaha, commotion, uproar

Origin

Late 19th century: of unknown origin.

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