Fracas vs Stooshie - What's the difference?
fracas | stooshie | Synonyms |
A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
* 1989 , , Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,
* 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,
(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, thereād 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:
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)- 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.
- 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 * meleestooshie
English
Noun
(en noun)The Stooshie