{"id":5999,"date":"2011-10-05T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=5999"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:46:37","slug":"stooshie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=5999","title":{"rendered":"Stooshie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stooshie<\/strong> [\u02c8st\u0251\u0283i, \u02c8st\u026a\u0283i, \u02c8st\u028c\u0283i] is a Scots word I came across recently that means an uproar, a commotion, a fuss, a row, a brawl, a fight, a fuss, commotion or to-do. It is often crops up in relation to protests and complaints – people might create a stooshie<\/em> about something they don’t like or which displeases them.<\/p>\n

The Online Scots Dictionary<\/a> spells this word stishie [‘st\u026a\u0283i, ‘st\u028c\u0283i, ‘sta\u0283i] or strushie [‘str\u028c\u0283i, ‘stru\u0283i] and defines it as “an uproar, hubbub, disturbance, commotion, turmoil, quarrel, brawl, row. A frolic, banter.” When used as a verb it means “to engage in a frolic, to banter, bandy words.” and the past participle is stishit or stishied.<\/p>\n

The Dictionary of the Scots Language \/ Dictionar o the Scots Leid<\/a> spells this word stashie, stashy, stachie; stushie, steeshie, steishie and stishie and defines it as “an uproar, hubbub, disturbance, commotion, turmoil, quarrel, brawl, row”. <\/p>\n

Some examples include:<\/p>\n

– Mony an aukward stashie was he in. (Many an awkward stashie was he in)
\n– The hail toun\u2019s been in a stushie about it. (The whole town’s been in a stushie about it)
\n– There was a great stishie gaen on ower the road. (There was a great stishie going on over the road)
\n– Michty me, sic a muckle stushie at the clamjamphry in Embra! (Good heavens, such a mighty fuss at the gathering in Edinburgh!)<\/p>\n

The origins of this word are uncertain, though it has been suggested that it might be a version of the English word ecstasy. Then again it might be related to the word stoush<\/strong>, which is used on Australia and New Zealand to mean fight or quarrel and is of uncertain origin.<\/p>\n

Related words include:
\n– stramash<\/strong> [str\u0251\u02c8m\u0251\u0283] – an uproar, commotion, hubbub, disturbance, a broil, squabble, row; to shatter, to smash to pieces.
\n– collieshangie<\/strong> [k\u0254l\u026a\u031c\u02c8\u0283\u0251\u014bi] – a noisy dispute, an uproar, row, disturbance<\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/heritage.caledonianmercury.com\/2011\/03\/04\/useful-scots-word-stooshie\/001942<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.doubletongued.org\/index.php\/dictionary\/stooshie\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.scots-online.org\/dictionary\/search.asp<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.dsl.ac.uk\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/200104160022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stooshie [\u02c8st\u0251\u0283i, \u02c8st\u026a\u0283i, \u02c8st\u028c\u0283i] is a Scots word I came across recently that means an uproar, a commotion, a fuss, a row, a brawl, a fight, a fuss, commotion or to-do. It is often crops up in relation to protests and complaints – people might create a stooshie about something they don’t like or which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,10,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology","category-language","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}