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Webster 1913 Edition
Stockish
Stock′ish
,Adj.
Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
Since naught so
But music for the time doth change his nature.
stockish
, hard, and full of rage,But music for the time doth change his nature.
Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Stockish
STOCKISH
,Adj.
Definition 2024
stockish
stockish
English
Adjective
stockish (comparative more stockish, superlative most stockish)
- (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.
- Shakespeare