Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An attendant; a hanger-on: an old Irish term.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A menial attendant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
menial attendant .
Etymologies
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Irish and Gaelic stocach an idle fellow who lives on the industry of others, a lounger.
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Examples
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Morckus_; he's a long _stocah_ of a fellow, with a big nose, wears knee breeches, corderoy leggings, and takes a power of snuff.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 Various
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_stocah_, or walking gentleman; that is, a person who is too proud to earn his bread, and too poor to have bread without earning it.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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