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Fracas vs Stooshie - What's the difference?

fracas | stooshie | Synonyms |

Fracas is a synonym of stooshie.


As nouns the difference between fracas and stooshie

is that fracas is failure while stooshie is (scotland) the disruption caused by a disagreement or misunderstanding.

fracas

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
  • * 1989 , , Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,
  • And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.
  • * 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,
  • The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.

    Synonyms

    * brouhaha * kerfuffle * melee

    stooshie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) the disruption caused by a disagreement or misunderstanding
  • * {{quote-book, year=1978, title=Scottish Bankers magazine, author=Institute of Bankers in Scotland
  • , passage=The Traveller going through Customs goes alone, wondering what is causing the stooshie up front and nervously letting someone go before him
  • * {{quote-book, year=2003, title=One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, author=Christopher Brookmyre
  • , passage=First of all, thereā€™d been that horrible stooshie over the wifie in Ballygrant with MS who was growing her own cannabis in her greenhouse.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, title=Proverbs in the patter, author=Jamie Stuart
  • , passage=Ill-will can mak a stooshie , but love can settle a stramash.}}
  • (Scotland) a weekly digest magazine produced by DC Thomson: The Stooshie
  • Synonyms

    * (disruption) fracas, fuss, mess, outcry, stir, uproar