stoshers

English

Etymology

With -ers.

Adjective

stoshers (comparative more stoshers, superlative most stoshers)

  1. Alternative spelling of stocious.
    • 1987 April 21, Jeremy Clarke, “Demon drink”, in The Spectator‎[1], volume 303, page 59:
      The intricate cunning with which the rebel faction of my mind tries to convince Captain Conscience that alcohol and me are the greatest of pals, and that we must spend more time together, is amazing. […] Until lately I’ve appeased the rebel faction by going out and embracing my old friend on average about once a fortnight. I’d go out and get completely Harry Stoshers, as they call it in the army[.]
    • 1993, Michael York, Accidentally on Purpose‎[2], New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 182–183:
      To a chorus of horrified gasps, he plunged to the stone floor [of Oranmore Castle], breaking a chair with his face en route. […] A doctor was summoned who arrived completely "stoshers", to use the local term for the walking inebriate, but managed to patch up the fallen monarch.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stocious.
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