stonish
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English stonish, equivalent to stone + -ish.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]stonish (comparative more stonish, superlative most stonish)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɒnɪʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈstɑnɪʃ/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɒnɪʃ, (US) -ɑnɪʃ
Verb
[edit]stonish (third-person singular simple present stonishes, present participle stonishing, simple past and past participle stonished)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of astonish
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, verso:
- One day as I vnvvarily did gaze / on thoſe fayre eyes my loues immortall light: / the vvhiles my ſtoniſht hart ſtood in amaze, / through ſvveet illuſion of her lookes delight.
References
[edit]- “stonish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms suffixed with -ish
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- Rhymes:English/ɒnɪʃ
- Rhymes:English/ɒnɪʃ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑnɪʃ
- Rhymes:English/ɑnɪʃ/2 syllables
- English verbs
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- English heteronyms