stookie
Britishnoun
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stucco
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plaster; plaster of Paris
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a statue
he stood there like a stookie
Example Sentences
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The first actual working television, demonstrated by Scottish inventor John Baird in the mid-1920s, used Nipkow’s mechanical disk idea to show dim, fuzzy images of a ventriloquist dummy named Stookie Bill.
From The Verge
It features Logie Baird's famous ventriloquist dummy Stookie Bill, which he used when developing his invention.
From BBC
I think anyone who's had the experience of trying to put a knitting needle down the cast to get to an itch will realise that a stookie is extremely unpleasant.
From BBC
And you says, 'Did it miss its stupid old Stookie?'
From Project Gutenberg
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