† sturtfuladj.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Contentious.
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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [adjective] > characterized by
unpeaceablec1384
contentiousc1430
battlefulc1449
sturtful1568
bateful1582
wrestlinga1593
militant1603
concertative1727
adversarial1839
adversative1849
conflictual1961
fuck you1962
confrontational1975
1568 Want of Wyse Men (Bannatyne) in R. Henryson Poems (1908) III. 174 Sic sturtfull stering in to godis neis it stinkis.
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