CROCK Definition & Meaning

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crock

[ krok ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an earthenware pot, jar, or other container.
a fragment of earthenware; potsherd.
Slang. euphemistic shortening of crock of shit.

crock

[ krok ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that is old, decrepit, or broken-down.
Slang. a person who complains about or insists on being treated for an imagined illness.
an old ewe.
an old worn-out horse.

verb (used with object)

British Slang. to disable or injure.

crock

[ krok ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

British Dialect. soot; smut.
excess surface dye from imperfectly dyed cloth.

verb (used with object)

British Dialect. to soil with soot.

verb (used without object)

(of cloth) to give off excess surface dye when rubbed.

crock

/ ��ɒ�� /

noun

an earthen pot, jar, etc
a piece of broken earthenware
informal.
Alsocrock of shit a quantity or source of lies or nonsense

crock

/ ��ɒ�� /

noun

slang.
a person or thing, such as a car, that is old or decrepit (esp in the phrase old crock )
an old broken-down horse or ewe

verb

slang.
to become or cause to become weak or disabled

crock

/ ��ɒ�� /

noun

dialect.
soot or smut
colour that rubs off fabric

verb

dialect.
tr to soil with or as if with soot
intr (of a dyed fabric) to release colour when rubbed, as a result of imperfect dyeing

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of crock¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English crokke, Old English croc(c), crocca “pot”; cognate with Old Norse krukka “j�ܲ�”

Origin of crock²

First recorded in 1520–30; Middle English crok “old ewe,” perhaps akin to crack (verb) and obsolete crack “whore”; compare Low German krakke “broken-down horse”

Origin of crock³

First recorded in 1650–60; origin uncertain

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of crock¹

Old English crocc pot; related to Old Norse krukka jug, Middle Low German ��ū�� pot

Origin of crock²

C15: originally Scottish; related to Norwegian krake unhealthy animal, Dutch kraak decrepit person or animal

Origin of crock³

C17: probably from crock ¹

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Nutria hunters can got to Nutria.com for a number of recipes for cooking the rodent, including a crock pot preparation, nutria chili and stuffed nutria hindquarters.

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“I think when you have to be away from your family, for example, you don’t want to be away and you’re there thinking, ‘Why did I do this crock of s—?”

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I've been saying for years that his schtick about being some kind of peacenik was a crock.

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I suspected it was a crock, so I began by turning to the feline fanatic's go-to expert in times of bewilderment and crisis: cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy.

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As Fintan O'Toole quipped recently in the Irish Times, his country "found the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow without even trying to catch the leprechaun."

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