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

• stockishness
  noun
• stockishly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of stockish

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

Example Sentences

"I told you—I told you—" she choked, her stockish figure shaking with rage, "I told you—you—" He put up his elbow as if to ward off a blow.

From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

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

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

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

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