Etymology

stocah

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Today it means: A layabout or good-for-nothing Full definition →

Irish stócach ← Scottish Gaelic stòcach
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromstòcach“an idle fellow who lives on the industry of others, a lounger”
  2. Irish · derived fromstócach
  3. English todaystocah

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.