crock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
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.
Inflected forms:
form: crocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181,
Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his leaſings vain; / Like fooliſh Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.
gloss: A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
examples: old crocks’ home
He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance. […] “Not so bad that, for a crock,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.
He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can′t ask a girl to marry a crock.”
Girl: "Will you always be a bit of a crock?"
Man: "According to my doctor, no."
Girl: "I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life."
gloss: An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
examples: old crocks race
gloss: Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: That's a bunch of crock.
The story is a crock.
gloss: A low stool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (Richard Steele), The Tatler, 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Tatler, 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,
I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.
gloss: A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.
gloss: To break something or injure someone.
pos: verb
examples: "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."
Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel
Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.
gloss: To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
pos: verb
examples: thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.
Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).
In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.
gloss: To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
pos: verb
examples: The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...
gloss: To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
transitive
examples: She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool.
Derived words: crockware
crocky
crocker
crockery
crock haircut
crock off
crock of gold
crock of shit
crock pot
crockpot
crock up
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