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stockish, a.|ˈstɒkɪʃ|
[f. stock n. + -ish.]
1. Resembling a stock or block of wood; esp. of a person, excessively dull, stupid or ‘wooden’.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 81 Naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But musicke for time doth change his nature. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 7 A stockish senselessnesse, or a sufferance of any evill, without any great sense of it. 1641F. Greville Eng. Episc. i. ix. 53 The issue will be slavish, grosse superstition, and stockish Idolatry. 1816Colman Br. Grins, Fire! xvii, Touched by vivific flame, the stockish dirt Fermented, and became no more inert. 1842Emerson Lect., Transcendentalist Wks. (Bohn) II. 285 These persons are not by nature melancholy,..they are not stockish or brute. 1842J. Foster Life & Corr. (1846) II. 347 The stockish stupidity of those Chartists. 1881Stevenson Virg. Puerisque, Apol. Idlers 124 Many..come out of the study with an..owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.
2. Short and thick-set, stocky. rare—1.
1913N. Munro New Road xviii, A stockish little man dressed in the Highland habit.
Hence ˈstockishly adv., ˈstockishness.
1837Browning Strafford iii. iii, O stockishness! Wear such a ruff, and never call to mind St. John's head in a charger? 1846― Soul's Trag. ii. Poems (1905) 358/1, I understand only the dull mule's way of standing stockishly. 1914H. Newbolt Aladore xxvi, Then he stood before her stockishly, like a thing of wood. |