a. Obs. [f. STEER sb.1 + -ISH1.]
1. Having the qualities of a steer; brutish.
c. 1411. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 604. The cause why men oghten þider gon, Nat conceyue can his wylde steerissh heed.
2. dial. (See quots.)
1789. W. H. Marshall, Glouc., I. 332. Steerish: spoken of a young, raw, growing ox; not ‘oxey.’
1851. Glouc. Gloss., Steerish, young.
