stocah

From Irish stócach and Scottish Gaelic stòcach (“an idle fellow who lives on the industry of others, a lounger”).

stocah (plural stocahs)

1. (Ireland, obsolete) A layabout or good-for-nothing
   • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

     hee faith is the life of a peasant or churle ; but thenceforth becommeth either an horseboy, or a stocah to some kerne, inuring himselfe to his weapon, and to the gentlemanly trade of stealing

• “stocah”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Choats, coaths, tachos