Stonk is essentially just a funny way to say “stock” – and once you understand that, it explains everything else that has happened.]

Any literatesque character may be described in literature under any circumstances which exhibit its literatesqueness.

to wad a cloak

Gertrude Stein, who might, in her time, have been considered a bit of a bossyboots herself, suggested that semicolons were simply commas with pretensions.