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4-letter words (1 found)

BOCK,

3-letter words (3 found)

BOK,COB,KOB,

2-letter words (4 found)

BO,KO,OB,OK,

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Definitions and meaning of bock

bock

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɒk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /bɔk/, /bɑk/
  • Rhymes: -ɒk
  • Homophones: balk, bok

Etymology 1

From German Bockbier.

Noun

bock (countable and uncountable, plural bocks)

  1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
    Synonym: bock beer

Etymology 2

Interjection

bock

  1. Alternative form of bok (sound of a chicken).

Verb

bock (third-person singular simple present bocks, present participle bocking, simple past and past participle bocked)

  1. Alternative form of bok (make the sound of a chicken).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Irish bac (to hinder).

Verb

bock

  1. (Ireland) to hinder, stop
    • A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN GLOSSARY:
      Bock that.
References
  • J. J. Hogan and Patrick C. O'Neill (1947) “A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN GLOSSARY”, in Béaloideas[1], volume 17, number 1/2, An Cumann Le Béaloideas Eireann/Folklore of lreland Society, page 264

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk/

Noun

bock m (plural bocks)

  1. a beer glass having the capacity of approximately a quarter of a litre
  2. the content of such a beer glass

Related terms

  • sous-bock

Further reading

  • “bock”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish boc, poc, pocc (he-goat) (compare Irish boc).

Noun

bock m (genitive singular bock, plural buick)

  1. buck, male (of animals)
  2. gelding

Derived terms

  • bock goayr (billygoat)

Mutation

References

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “poc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bukker, bokker, from Old Norse bokkr, bukkr, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz‚ from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵno-, *bʰukkos, *bʰugkó-.

Noun

bock c

  1. a buck; the male of goat and deer
  2. the tick mark (✓), often marking something as incorrect in Sweden, but otherwise normally used to mark something as correct
    Antonym: (about "correct" vs. "incorrect") kryss
  3. a sawhorse
  4. a mount for a (roller) bearing
  5. a bend or fold of sheet metal
  6. a tool to bend or fold sheet metal
  7. leapfrog is called hoppa bock
  8. a gymnastics tool for leapfrogging

Declension

Related terms

References

  • bock in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • bock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • bock in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org