ˈstalko Anglo-Irish. ? Obs.
[? a. Irish stócach idler.]
(See quot.)
| 1802 M. Edgeworth Rosanna iii. (1832) 332 Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of stalkoes or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire. 1817 ― Ormond i. Wks. 1848 IX. 231. |