Lexicographical Neighbors of Stashie
Literary usage of Stashie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1916)
"stashie, as the oldest, did the first basting, putting the notches together
carefully, just as they read the instructions aloud, and there, all of a sudden, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"... in allusion to which he was commonly known in the country as ' stashie Laing.'
The first of Laing's antiquarian writings,'The Caledonian Itinerary, ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"stashie, i. Uproar, commotion, disturbance,, a quarrel, Aberd., Banff's. A literary
friend has remarked the affinity between this and Or. rats-<i, seditio. ..."
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