Etymology

stocious

S1T1O1C3I1O1U1S1

Today it means: very drunk, intoxicated Full definition →

Irish stuagach ← Scots stot
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Scots · derived fromstot
  2. Irish · derived fromstab
  3. Irish · derived fromstuagach
  4. English todaystocious

Uncertain. The ending -ious appears to be a mock-Latinate jocular formation. Suggestions for the initial sto- or stot- include: * Arbitrary * From an unidentified Irish word ** David Crystal doubtfully suggests Irish stuagach "pitcher" or Irish stab "stoup". * Jonathon Green suggests Scots stot "totter" * Tony Thorne suggests "a dialect word meaning waterlogged or muddy" (?stodge) Green distinguishes this word from stocious, Caribbean slang for "stylish; good-looking; arrogant", a corruption of ostentatious.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.