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still as a stock

still as a stock adjective: stock still.

Adjective

still as a stock (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, simile) stock still
    • the old woman was not so intent at her devotions, but she casting her eyes aside likewise saw a Purse in the Boys hand, missing her own soon knew that to be it, wherefore she and all the people came nearer the Boy, who stood still as a stock and said nothing to them1674, Francis Kirkman, The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon And Other Extravagants, volume 3, page 213
    • And there you stand, doing nothing — absolutely still as a stock, though you see him beating your wife.1899, William Gilmore Simms, Confession; or, The blind heart: a domestic story, page 117

Questions about still as a stock

What does still as a stock mean?
Still as a stock means stock still.
What part of speech is still as a stock?
Still as a stock is an adjective.

Words near still as a stock in the dictionary

  1. stilish
  2. still
  3. still alarm
  4. still and all
  5. still and anon
  6. still as a stock
  7. Still Bay
  8. still frame
  9. still frames
  10. still got one's communion money
  11. still image

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