stockish

From stock +‎ -ish.

stockish (comparative more stockish, superlative most stockish)

1. (obsolete) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage,
     But music for the time doth change his nature.

   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Many who have "plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.

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