English Explanatory Dictionary

bock beer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A strong, dark lager of German origin.

Word forms

bock beer bock beers

Etymology

From German Bockbier, from Bock + Bier (“beer”). The former component is a southern German alteration of Einbeck, a brewery town in Lower Saxony, where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix -beck (“-brook”) was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of Bock (“buck”).

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