crock
Meanings
noun
- A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- A low stool.
- A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
verb
- To break something or injure someone.
- To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
- To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
- To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
noun
- The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
- Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
verb
- To give off crock or smut.
name
- A surname.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *krokku, *krokkō, from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”). The English word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik (“jar, jug”), regional German Kruke (“crock”), Icelandic krukka (“pot, jar”), Old English crōg, crōh (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). See also cruse.
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