stooshie
n.— «There seems to have been a little bit of a stooshie (a mild altercation, to those South of the Border) on the subject of Barbara Cartland.» —“Barbara Cartland’s ‘pink monstrosity’ enrages Scots” by Maev Kennedy Guardian (U.K.) Aug. 15, 1988. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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