| 释义 |
stookie Sc. and north. dial.|ˈstukɪ|
Also steuke, stoukie.
[dial. var. stucco n.]
1. Plaster of Paris; any plaster-like substance.
1796Edin. Mag. May 385 The carved wood an' polish'd stoukie. 1948Proc. Sc. Anthrop. & Folklore Soc. III. iii. 83 When the doorstep had been washed, the careful housewife could draw designs and patterns with white ‘stookie’. 1968in Sc. Nat. Dict. (1974) IX. 60/3 My stooky halfed in two and I had to go back into hospital.
2. A plaster statue, a wax figure or dummy. Also transf., a slow-witted person, a blockhead.
a1828T. Bewick Howdy & Upgetting (1850) 13 Dinna sit there leyke steuke, and sit and say nowse. 1895W. C. Fraser Whaups of Durley xv. 219 Jamie sat like a stookey wi' a face as red as a partan's tae. 1903J. Lumsden Toorle 193 Because, ye stupid stookie, I step aside for none. 1931A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle ii. iii. 256 Did ye notice the stookies in the window? 1934J. Buchan Free Fishers xix. 314 Give her your arm..and don't stand glowering like a stookie. 1948Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 27 May 4/1 The civic representatives all standing like ‘stookies’ as they had not got the words of the Psalm they were singing. |