stoush

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fight, an argument.

   • 1996, Elizabeth Knox, Glamour and the Sea, Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166, Barry explained that his friend wasn′t drunk, he′d been in a stoush, had a ding on his head and was covered in money.
   • She and Anna used to reproduce Veronica′s stoushes with Pat, conducted with gusto over the fence but never brought into the confining space of either house where they might smoulder and flare.
2. 2

   To fight

   To fight; to argue.

   • 1916, C. J. Dennis, The Call of Stoush, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15, Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ′E′s done a break— / Gone to the flamin′ war to stoush the foe.
   • The two business moguls have stoushed over rights to televise rugby union, whose marketability has greatly risen since institution of the World Cup in 1987.
   • There was a lot of corporate stoushing and things said that people didn′t like.

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