lackstock
English
Etymology
lack + stock
Noun
lackstock (plural lackstocks)
- (obsolete, stock market) A person who has no money in stocks and shares.
- 1802 November 6, Southey, Robert, Letter to To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq.; republished in Warter, John Wood, editor, Selections from the letters of Robert Southey, volume 3, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856, page 212:
- 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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