stock-

From Stock (“stick, staff”). Originally in forms like stocksteif (literally “stick-stiff”), stockstill (literally “stick-still”), then generalised. Compare the same in stein-.

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stock-

1. (colloquial) very (used to emphasize)

   stockbesoffen (very drunk, wasted, plastered)

   stockdunkel, stockduster, stockfinster (pitch black)

   stocksteif (very stiff, very formal)

   stockschwul (blatantly gay, homosexual)

   stocktaub (deaf as a post)

Cognate of Danish stok-, Norwegian stokk-, German stock-.

stock-

1. extremely, absolutely

• stock- in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)