stramash

stramash
I
Scottish Vernacular Dictionary
A bit of bother, a scuffle. In recent times only used by (the late, talentless) Jimmy Sanderson and (possibly also deid) Arthur Montford, to describe a messy, almost game-winning/losing tangle of limbs in either goalmouth of the local sports stadium.
II
Cleveland Dialect List
to dash or smash in pieces
III
North Country (Newcastle) Words
to beat, to bang, to break ireeparably, to destroy; n a complete otherthrow, with great breakage and confusion: 'he made a sad stramash amang the pots and pans'

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