stoatious

English

Adjective

stoatious (comparative more stoatious, superlative most stoatious)

  1. Alternative spelling of stocious.
    • 1987, Sara Fraser, Tildy: Nursing Woman[1], Futura, →ISBN, page 235:
      ‘Anyways,’ Mother Readman went on, ‘theer’s our Marmaduke watching over the grave and somebody gives him some drink. O’ corst the bugger ends up gettin’ stoatious and he falls asleep by the side on the grave.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stocious.