stoshus

English

Adjective

stoshus (comparative more stoshus, superlative most stoshus)

  1. Alternative spelling of stocious.
    • 1961 December, Michael O'Beirne, “There's no place like Moore Street!”, in The Irish Digest‎[1], volume LXXIII, number 2, page 35:
      moving slowly through the two-way throngs you can hear (the native with a glow of recognition) snatches or sentences redolent of Dublin: […] A little farther on; “His nibs was stoshus, I needn’t tell ya. So me an’ the mot goes to the Royal.”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stocious.
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