a. [f. STORK + -ISH.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stork; like that of a stork.
1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 91 b. Antigone the daughter of Laomedon solaciously delighting hir selfe in hir storkish plumes.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 336. Like storkish kings they came vpon vs poore frogs with minaces of death to him that first should leape out of the puddle from vnder their tyranny.
1842. Thackeray, Sultan Stork, I. They … greeted it in the true storkish language. ‘Good morning,’… said the stork.
