Anglo-Irish. Obs. [? a. Irish stócach idler.] (See quot.)
1802. Mar. 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. Ibid. (1817), Ormond, i. Wks. 1848, IX. 231. Honest Tom Kelly, the stalko.
