Stockish Definition
stäkizh
adjective
Stupid; dull; thickheaded.
Webster's New World
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.
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Origin of Stockish
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stock +"Ž -ish
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