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stirabouts

stirabouts is the plural of stirabout.

Meaning of stirabout

Noun

stirabout (countable and uncountable, plural stirabouts)

  1. Porridge.
    • He's really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do the dumb-bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 222
  2. (Ireland) A commotion.

Questions about stirabouts

What is stirabouts the plural of?
Stirabouts is the plural of stirabout.

Words near stirabouts in the dictionary

  1. stir-fry
  2. stir-frying
  3. stir-frys
  4. Stir-up Sunday
  5. stirabout
  6. stirabouts
  7. stirato
  8. stirbar
  9. stirbars
  10. Stirchley
  11. Stirchley and Brookside

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