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lackstock

noun

Etymology

From lack + stock.

  1. inherited from *stukkaz✻
  2. inherited from *stokk✻
  3. inherited from stocc
  4. inherited from stok
  5. compounded as lackstock — “lack + stock”

Definitions

  1. A person who has no money in stocks and shares.

    • Only let me say, that I should be as glad as you could be to find myself in possession of a good independent fortune: and that we poor lacklands and lackstocks who have to earn our livelihood, must endeavour to make the best of it.

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