stockish

American  

[stok-ish] / ˈstɒk ɪʃ /

adjective

1. like a block of wood; stupid.

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stockish British  

/ ˈstɒkɪʃ /

adjective

1. stupid or dull

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Other Word Forms

• stockishly adverb
• stockishness noun

Etymology

Origin of stockish

First recorded in 1590–1600; stock + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long a patience with me.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long 48 a patience with me.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The pilgrim is throughout a pale and stockish figure; but the devil covers a multitude of defects.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He crushed with his contempt the two stockish imbeciles who did not understand the sublimity of his song, which opened wide the heavens!

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

And while I stood there, stockish and stupid, the pair became aware of me.

From Marjorie by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)