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▪ I. stoush, v. Austral. and N.Z. slang.|staʊʃ|
Also † stouch.
[Orig. uncertain: perh. rel. to stashie uproar, quarrel (E.D.D., S.N.D.).]
To thrash or beat (a person); to punch or strike; to fight.
1893J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 66 I'll get stoushed over this job yet. Brombee's got it in for me. 1894Bulletin (Sydney) 5 May 13/3 ‘Then 'e biffed me.’ ‘And did yer stouch him back?’ 1900H. Lawson On Track 148 ‘If you don't,’ said Steelman, ‘I'll stoush you.’ 1924Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 309 ‘What your crowd down under are suffering from is growing pains. You'll get over em in three hundred years or so— if you're allowed to last so long.’ ‘Who's going to stoush us?’ Orton asked fiercely. 1941K. Tennant Battlers xxvi. 281 What with not being allowed to stouch any of the coves in charge of this turnout. 1945[see quilt v.3 a]. 1965E. Lambert Long White Night 79 Get out of that bloody car while I stoush yer!
▪ II. stoush, n. Austral. and N.Z. slang.|staʊʃ|
Also † stouch.
[f. the vb.]
Fighting; also, to take stoush, to receive a beating. A brawl or fight; a scrap, ‘punch-up’.
1908H. Fletcher Dads & Dan between Smokes 32 He looked as though he liked bein' hit an' took stoush fer breakfast every mornin'. 1914C. J. Dennis in Bulletin (Sydney) 16 July 47/1 Wot's jist plain stoush wif us..is ‘valler’ [sc. valour] if yer far enough away. 1924Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Stouch, a fight; to assault. 1945R. S. Close Love me Sailor 149 It was like the old days when I got Ernie into some stoush ashore just for the hell of fighting him out of it. 1952J. Cleary Sundowners (1960) iii. 129 The warmonger. You start any more stoushes..and..it'll be the finish of you. 1966Weekly News (N.Z.) 22 June 59/4 The final folly was that it was the Lions and not Otago who were principally responsible for the ‘stoush’ of the first half of Saturday's game. 1970D. M. Davin Not here, not Now iv. i. 229 I've played football against him. He's a good man in the stoush, no doubt about that. |