Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Australia, informal)To fight; to argue.

Origin

Possibly from stash. Australian from 1893; Boer War military slang. Also may be derived fr

Possibly from stash. Australian from 1893; Boer War military slang. Also may be derived from stushie or stooshie, a Scottish term for a commotion, rumpus, or row.

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Forms

stoushes, stoushing, stoushed, stoushed

regular · Lesson

Base formstoush · to stoush
3rd person singularstoushes
Present participlestoushing
Past simplestoushed
Past participlestoushed

Tenses

stoush · stoushed · will stoush · have stoushed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystoush
he, she, itstoushes

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stoushed
he, she, ithas stoushed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stoush

Past simpleLesson

all personsstoushed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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