Stockish

Origin

stock + -ish

Full definition of stockish

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
• ShakespeareSince naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage,
  But music for the time doth change his nature.
• 1881, , :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.