Stoater

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

All legs and boobs and bare brown backs. Two stoaters.

'Mind we saw a couple o' young lassies that time comin' oot and goin' intae the Co-op,' a man said. 'Fuckin' stoaters, man.

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.

There'll be other Christmases. But let's just promise future presents to each other'll be stoaters.

Then Eric made a sudden quantum leap and realized that they absolutely must must MUST do a science-fiction version of Noel Coward's enduring and much-loved old stoater, Private Lives.

'That's a great dog you've got there,' he said. 'That's a real stoater.

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.