Definitions

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  • noun Scotland plaster of Paris
  • noun Scotland A plaster cast.
  • noun Scotland, dialect idiot

Etymologies

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From stucco +‎ -ie.

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Examples

  • But the other side, the various health boards who have to pay for nurses, doctors, medicines, hospital beds, scalpels and scrumptious hospital dinners, not to mention the plastercast that makes my stookie every 12 weeks, well they are having a tough, tough time of it these days.

    The best things in life are free.... Jeff 2007

  • If I break my leg, I can go get a stookie, ask people to write their name on it and in 12 weeks, once my leg is healed, I'll be able to go out climbing trees again, clearly not having learned my lesson from 12 weeks prior.

    The best things in life are free.... Jeff 2007

  • Could the days of the plaster cast or stookie as its known in Scotland be numbered?

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • He went to hospital two days later and came back with a stookie.

    unknown title 2009

  • He's aboot as souple as a stookie Christ on a Christmas tree! "

    The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

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