stonish

From Middle English stonish, equivalent to stone +‎ -ish.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstəʊnɪʃ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstoʊnɪʃ/

stonish (comparative more stonish, superlative most stonish)

1. Characteristically like stone; stony.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɒnɪʃ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑnɪʃ/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɒnɪʃ, (US) -ɑnɪʃ

stonish (third-person singular simple present stonishes, present participle stonishing, simple past and past participle stonished)

1. (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.

     An adjective use.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stonish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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• 'stonish

From English astonished.

• IPA^(key): /stɑː.nɪʃ/

stonish

1. In awe
2. marvelling
3. astonished

stonish

1. To shock
2. To astonish

• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

• De Nyew Testament‎^[1], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025