stashie
Britishnoun
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Instead "stashie" - also spelt stashy, stachie or stushie, and even steeshie, steishie or stishie, is found.
From BBC
However the word - which is first cited in the SND in 1824 in the phrase "Mony an aukward stashie was he in" - has become more widespread in the lead up to the referendum.
From BBC
“I can’t have any social engagements, you know, the way I am, and Paul’s away a good deal of the time, and ’Stashie and I can get you tea and eggs and toast, at least.
From Project Gutenberg
Paul was out of town, but she knew the agonies of anxiety ’Stashie would suffer if she did not appear.
From Project Gutenberg
Anastasia O’Hern was there, to be sure—heavy-handed, warm-hearted ’Stashie, who took the new little girl to her loyal spinster heart and wept tears of joy over her safe arrival; but ’Stashie had proved, as Paul predicted from the first time he saw her, incorrigibly rattle-headed and loose-ended.
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