English Dictionary

stoater

noun

(Scotland, Ireland) A beautiful girl or woman. / (Scotland, Ireland, more generally) Anything especially nice. / (Scotland, Ireland, horse racing) A horse that wins against the odds.

He is a stoater on the football field.

意味（1）

(Scotland, Ireland) A beautiful girl or woman.

She was a wee stoater with beautiful ringlets down to her shoulders.

意味（2）

(Scotland, Ireland, more generally) Anything especially nice.

Towards the end perhaps there were slight signs of tiring fingers but there is no doubt that, in the words of the cognoscenti, this was a stoater of a performance.

意味（3）

(Scotland, Ireland, horse racing) A horse that wins against the odds.

El Hakim's party won a mere trifle, but stood what poor Captain Scott was wont to term a stoater on Merlin, a good but uncertain horse, who had lost him in the trial at home.

意味（4）

(Scotland, Ireland) A severe blow.

With this, Vinet lent him such a swinging stoater with the pitchfork souse between the neck and the collar of his jerkin, that down fell signor on the ground arsyversy, with his spindle shanks wide straggling over his poll.