stooshie

stooshie
 n.— «Frizzell panicked, lashed out, kicked at the boy’s shin. Next thing he kens the boy’s on the floor screaming, and the police are interviewing him on an assault charge.…The union had to fight like billy-oh on that one.…It was a right stooshie. In the papers and everything.» —by Duncan McLean Bunker Man May 1, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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