Plaster vs Stookie - What's the difference?
plaster | stookie |
(uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
(countable, New Zealand, British) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
(uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
(countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast.
(uncountable) plaster of Paris.
To cover or coat something with plaster, or apply a plaster.
To hide or cover up, as if with plaster.
(Scotland) plaster of Paris
(Scotland) A plaster cast.
*2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 70:
*:So it was a stookie on my arm. The bone would get better. If it knitted.
(Scotland, dialect) idiot
(Scotland) small plaster statue
As nouns the difference between plaster and stookie
is that plaster is a bandage, a band-aid while stookie is (scotland) plaster of paris.plaster
English
(wikipedia plaster)Alternative forms
* plaister * plastre (obsolete)Noun
Derived terms
* plasterboard * gypsum plaster * plaster cast * plaster lath * plaster and lath; lath and plasterSee also
* cement board * lath * gypsum board * gyprock * sheetrock * wallboard * drywallVerb
(en verb)- Her face was plastered in mud.
- The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.