Definition of "stockish" []

• Like a stock; stupid; blockish. (adjective)

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• "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."
• "The pilgrim is throughout a pale and stockish figure; but the devil covers a multitude of defects."
• "From another less analytical viewpoint, music was thought, also, to possess an inspired virtue, not easily defined, but revealed in its power to alter man's very being: there is “nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage,/But music for the time doth change his nature”"