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Webster 1913 Edition


Stockish

Stock′ish

,
Adj.
Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
Since naught so
stockish
, hard, and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Stockish

STOCKISH

,
Adj.
Hard; stupid; blockish. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


stockish

stockish

English

Adjective

stockish (comparative more stockish, superlative most stockish)

  1. (obsolete) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
    • Shakespeare
      Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, / But music for the time doth change his nature.
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
      Many who have "plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.