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blockish, a.|ˈblɒkɪʃ|
[f. block n. + -ish.]
1. Of the nature of a block.
1565J. Calfhill Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846) 20 The blockish Images, the dead Crosses. 1869Lowell Cathedral Poet. Wks. (1879) 446 Fear, That makes a fetish and misnames it God (Blockish or metaphysic, matters not).
2. Like a senseless block in the want of apprehension; excessively dull, stupid, obtuse.
a. of persons.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke iii. 7 The grosse and blockishe ignoraunte multitude. 1587Golding De Mornay ix. 136 With the allowance euen of the blockishest. 1680Hickeringill Meroz 38 To Gull the Blockish English. 1756Wesley Wks. (1872) X. 489 We see..dull, heavy, blockish Ministers. 1868Nettleship Browning i. 23 While the other seems morose and blockish, this man is kindly.
b. of personal qualities, productions, etc.
a1555Ridley Wks. 225, I will make it evident how blockish and gross your answer is. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iv. Wks. (1851) 172 Left only to obscure and blockish Chronicles. 1741Oldys Eng. Stage v. 63 Blockish Stupidity, as in Rusticks. 1835Browning Paracelsus 101 Whose innate blockish dullness.
3. Blocklike in form; roughly blocked out, rude, clumsy.
1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. ii. (ed. 2) 100 Such a blockish model as this. 1880Grant White Every-Day Eng. 295 Our speech would be clumsy, the forms of our thought blockish. |