stocah

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish stócach and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scottish Gaelic stòcach (an idle fellow who lives on the industry of others, a lounger).

Noun

stocah (plural stocahs)

  1. (obsolete) A menial attendant.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stocah”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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