Did you by any chance mean one of these? windsock, woodblock, woodcock, woodstove
Etymologies
- word + stock (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For, insofar as a culture is scientifically literate, then of course their wordstock too will be over a million.”
“So anything that crosses linguistic boundaries in this way is irrelevant as far as a language's wordstock is concerned.”
“He was also worried because several of the terms in the wordstock involved profanity, which he didn't know if that belonged in an academic paper, but I assured him they did.”
“I agree that incent has reached the general speaking public, at least in the United States, and therefore warrants inclusion in a descriptive account of the wordstock available to us speakers of American English.”
“It's easiest to do between related languages, which means that English, with its varied wordstock, is a particularly tough language to translate poetry from or to.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wordstock’.
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Anglish
Words that can replace Latinates.
frosent, gainsay, fremd, inrush, frain, huru, wordbook, wordstock, byspel, elfshine, infaru, glam and 98 more...
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AnWulf Wordstock - a stock of words, vocabulary, lexis, terminology
A kenning of word+stock. A stock or store of words. Aug 24, 2011