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Definition of Stockish
1. a. Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
Definition of Stockish
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Like a stock; stupid; blockish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stockish
1. stupid [adj] - See also: stupid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stockish
Literary usage of Stockish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1871)
"stockish, a. Stupid, blockish, STOLID. Stock-jobber, n. ... Stupid, dull, heavy,
doltish, slow, foolish, blockish, obtuse, stockish. £. ..."
2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Ebenezer Charlton Black (1906)
"... and floods; 80 Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music
for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, ..."
3. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Ebenezer Charlton Black (1906)
"... feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods ; So Since nought so stockish,
hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. ..."
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