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Instead "stashie" - also spelt stashy, stachie or stushie, and even steeshie, steishie or stishie, is found.

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.

Paul was out of town, but she knew the agonies of anxiety ’Stashie would suffer if she did not appear.

“But she is that,” protested ’Stashie.

She often found that ’Stashie’s questions brought her to a standstill.