Offensive vs Stoush - What's the difference?
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Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
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(countable, military) An attack.
(uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fight, an argument.
* 1996 , , Glamour and the Sea , Victoria University Press, New Zealand,
* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
* 2004 , Jay Verney, Percussion , University of Queensland Press,
* 2008 , Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 , Fremantle Press,
(Australia, informal) To fight; to argue.
* 1916 , , The Call of Stoush'', ''The Moods of Ginger Mick , 2009, Sydney University Press,
* 1999 , Marion Halligan, Marlene Mathews, A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia?s Sporting Life ,
* 2008 , Matthew Kidman, Alex Feher, Master CEOs: Secrets of Australia?s Leading CEOs , 2012,
Offensive is a related term of stoush.
As nouns the difference between offensive and stoush
is that offensive is offensive (posture of attacking or being able to attack) while stoush is (australia|new zealand|informal) a fight, an argument.As a verb stoush is
(australia|informal) to fight; to argue.offensive
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Adjective
(en adjective)Ed Pilkington
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "offensive" is often applied: content, material, language, word, comment, remark, statement, speech, joke, humor, image, picture, art, behavior, conduct, act, action. * When the second syllable is emphasized, "offensive" is defined as "insulting". When the first syllable is emphasized, it refers to the attacker of a conflict or the team in a sport who possesses the ball.Synonyms
* aggressive * invidious (Intending to cause envious offense)Antonyms
* inoffensive (not causing offense or disgust ) * defensive (relating or causing defence )Derived terms
* offensivenessNoun
- The Marines today launched a major offensive .
- He took the offensive in the press, accusing his opponent of corruption.
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Noun
(stoushes)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.
page 200,
- Now Henry knows dead cert he?s in for a stoush , but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
page 151,
- 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.
page 63,
- Melbourne almost lost the event when union go-slow tactics and a stoush over federal and state funding responsibilities seriously delayed work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium and Village.
Verb
page 15,
- Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ?E?s done a break— / Gone to the flamin? war to stoush the foe.
page 121,
- 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.
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- There was a lot of corporate stoushing and things said that people didn?t like.
