stonish
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English stonish, equivalent to stone + -ish.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editstonish (comparative more stonish, superlative most stonish)
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɒnɪʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈstɑnɪʃ/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɒnɪʃ, (US) -ɑnɪʃ
Verb
editstonish (third-person singular simple present stonishes, present participle stonishing, simple past and past participle stonished)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of astonish
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, verso:
- One day as I vnvvarily did gaze / on thoſe fayre eyes my loues immortall light: / the vvhiles my ſtoniſht hart ſtood in amaze, / through ſvveet illuſion of her lookes delight.
References
edit- “stonish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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