Definitions For Stocious
Adjective
(Ireland, slang) very drunk, intoxicatedEtymology
Uncertain. The ending -ious or -tious appears to be a mock-Latinate jocular formation. Suggestions for the initial sto- or stot- include: ArbitraryDavid Crystal (2014) Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (OUP) {{ISBN, 9780191501661}} From an unidentified Irish word David Crystal doubtfully suggests {{der, en, ga, stuagach}} "pitcher" or {{der, en, ga, stab}} "stoup". Jonathon Green suggests {{der, en, sco, stot}} "totter"Jonathon Green Green’s Dictionary of Slang Tony Thorne suggests "a dialect word meaning waterlogged or muddy"Tony Thorne, (2014, 4th ed.) Dictionary of Contemporary Slang p.422 (Bloomsbury) {{ISBN, 9781408181812}} (?stodgeJoseph Wright (1905) s.v. "stodge", senses 2,4,5,10,11,12) Green distinguishes this word from stocious, Caribbean slang for "stylish; good-looking; arrogant", a corruption of ostentatious.Jonathon Green Green’s Dictionary of SlangAlternative forms
stotious, stoshiousIs Stocious a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
NO
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
NO
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
12
The word Stocious is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends