1 prison: If I’m still in stardy come next summer, take the lassies on the river for a wee bit pearl-fishing... la19-.
2 the police: ‘Well, wid ye credit that,’said wee Annie, who was expecting the stardy to appear at any minute... 20-.
‣ stardied verb arrested; jailed: They have all been stardied!’ she answered. They were all in jail. 20-. etymology: possibly connected with Romany staro-mengro ‘a prisoner’ ‘a prison’; form staurdie also collected by EMcC/PS and Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informants, sense 1 attested by BS in TDITA; also attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; form stardi attested in Shelta; forms stardy, stardied attested by JS and BW note:
Hayward attests the form stirapen and Borrow cites the form starapen ‘prison’ which is perhaps the origin of the English slang stir.
Form stardie attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) with the same meaning.