Statue vs Stookie - What's the difference?
statue | stookie |
A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
* Shakespeare
(dated) A portrait.
To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
* Feltham
(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 a verb statue
is .As a noun stookie is
(scotland) plaster of paris.statue
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will raise her statue in pure gold.
- (Massinger)
Hypernyms
* image, sculpture, simulacrumHyponyms
* bust, figurineDerived terms
* statued * statuelike * statuesqueVerb
(statu)- The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.
