stoush

打架, 骚动

发音

AU /staʊʃ/

词形变化

stoushes 复数 stoushes stoushed stoushes 三单 stoushing stoushing 现在分词 stoushed 过去式 stoushed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fight, an argument.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 非正式

    1996, Elizabeth Knox, Glamour and the Sea, Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166, Barry explained that his friend wasn′t drunk, he′d been in a stoush, had a ding on his head and was covered in money.

    2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, Fremantle Press, page 63, Melbourne almost lost the event when union go-slow tactics and a stoush over federal and state funding responsibilities seriously delayed work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium and Village.

v.
  1. 1.

    To fight; to argue.

    澳大利亚 非正式

    1916, C. J. Dennis, The Call of Stoush, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15, Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ′E′s done a break— / Gone to the flamin′ war to stoush the foe.

词源

Possibly from stash. Australian from 1893; Boer War military slang. Also may be derived from stushie or stooshie, a Scottish term for a commotion, rumpus, or row.

来源：wiktionary