English Explanatory Dictionary

maddock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An earthworm or maggot.
name
  1. A surname from Welsh.
  2. A city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.

Pronunciation

/ˈmædək/

Word forms

maddock maddocks Mattuck

Etymology

From Middle English maddok, from an unrecorded Old English form corresponding to Old Norse maðkr (whence dialectal English mawk, Danish maddike, Swedish mask), originally a diminutive of the Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (whence Old English maþa), equivalent to made (“maggot”) + -ock.

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