stoushn.
/staʊʃ/, U.S. /staʊʃ/, Australian English /stæɔʃ/, New Zealand English /stæuʃ/ Australian and New Zealand slang.
Fighting; a brawl or fight; a scrap, ‘punch-up’. to take stoush: to receive a beating.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight
bicker1297
fightc1300
tirpeilc1330
ragea1393
stradec1400
intermell1489
cockfighta1513
skirm1534
bustle1579
pell-mellc1586
brabble1587
jostle1607
scufflea1616
counterbuff1632
mêléea1648
roil1690
tussle1749
scrimmage1780
turn-up1810
scrape1812
pounding match1815
mellay1819
struggle1840
mix-up1841
scrap1846
rough-up1891
turn-to1893
push and shove1895
bagarre1897
stoush1908
dogfight1910
bundle1936
sort-out1937
yike1940
bassa-bassa1956
punch-up1958
thump-up1967
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (intransitive)] > receive a beating
to take stoush1908
1908 H. Fletcher Dads & Dan: between Smokes 32 He looked as though he liked bein' hit an' took stoush fer breakfast every mornin'.
1914 C. 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.
1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Stouch, a fight; to assault.
1945 R. 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.
1952 J. Cleary Sundowners (1960) iii. 129 The warmonger. You start any more stoushes..and..it'll be the finish of you.
1966 Weekly 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.
1970 D. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
stoushv.
/staʊʃ/, U.S. /staʊʃ/, Australian English /stæɔʃ/, New Zealand English /stæuʃ/ Australian and New Zealand slang.
To thrash or beat (a person); to punch or strike; to fight.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
to-beatc893
threshOE
bustc1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
berrya1250
to-bunea1250
touchc1330
arrayc1380
byfrapc1380
boxc1390
swinga1400
forbeatc1420
peal?a1425
routa1425
noddlea1450
forslinger1481
wipe1523
trima1529
baste1533
waulk1533
slip1535
peppera1550
bethwack1555
kembc1566
to beat (a person) black and blue1568
beswinge1568
paik1568
trounce1568
canvass1573
swaddle?1577
bebaste1582
besoop1589
bumfeage1589
dry-beat1589
feague1589
lamback1589
clapperclaw1590
thrash1593
belam1595
lam1595
beswaddle1598
bumfeagle1598
belabour1600
tew1600
flesh-baste1611
dust1612
feeze1612
mill1612
verberate1614
bethumpa1616
rebuke1619
bemaul1620
tabor1624
maula1627
batterfang1630
dry-baste1630
lambaste1637
thunder-thump1637
cullis1639
dry-banga1640
nuddle1640
sauce1651
feak1652
cotton1654
fustigate1656
brush1665
squab1668
raddle1677
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slam1691
bebump1694
to give (a person) his load1694
fag1699
towel1705
to kick a person's butt1741
fum1790
devel1807
bray1808
to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813
mug1818
to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821
welt1823
hidea1825
slate1825
targe1825
wallop1825
pounce1827
to lay into1838
flake1841
muzzle1843
paste1846
looder1850
frail1851
snake1859
fettle1863
to do over1866
jacket1875
to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877
to take apart1880
splatter1881
to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884
to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886
to do up1887
to —— (the) hell out of1887
to beat — bells out of a person1890
soak1892
to punch out1893
stoush1893
to work over1903
to beat up1907
to punch up1907
cream1929
shellac1930
to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931
duff1943
clobber1944
to fill in1948
to bash up1954
to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976
to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983
beast1990
becurry-
fan-
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight with [verb (transitive)]
fightOE
strugglec1386
wrestle1398
cope witha1467
undertake1470
to set one's foot by1536
skirmc1540
make1542
to break blows, words with1589
combata1592
to take up1600
warsle1606
stoush1924
1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 66 I'll get stoushed over this job yet. Brombee's got it in for me.
1894 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 May 13/3 ‘Then 'e biffed me.’ ‘And did yer stouch him back?’
1900 H. Lawson On Track 148 ‘If you don't,’ said Steelman, ‘I'll stoush you.’
1924 R. Kipling 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.
1941 K. Tennant Battlers xxvi. 281 What with not being allowed to stouch any of the coves in charge of this turnout.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 120 An extensive vocabulary of fighting terms. Here are some of the best..roll into, vacuum, quilt and stoush a person.
1965 E. Lambert Long White Night 79 Get out of that bloody car while I stoush yer!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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