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Definitions and meaning of crock

crock

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɒk/
• Rhymes: -ɒk
• Homophone: croc

Etymology 1

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-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *growg- (“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.

Noun

crock (plural crocks)

1. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
   • 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.

2. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
3. (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.

   old crocks’ home ― home for the aged

   • 2006, The Moving Finger, part one (Miss Marple, 15 min, 20 year old bicycling tomboy to injured walker):

     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."

4. (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).

   Synonyms: banger; see also Thesaurus:old car

   old crocks race ― veteran car rally

5. (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.

6. A low stool.
   • 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.

7. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.

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Verb

crock (third-person singular simple present crocks, present participle crocking, simple past and past participle crocked)

1. To break something or injure someone.
2. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
   • 1917, John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same" [3], US Patent 1371572, page 1:

     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.
3. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
4. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.

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Etymology 2

Compare Welsh croeg (“cover”), Scots crochit (“covered”).

Noun

crock (uncountable)

1. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
2. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.

Verb

crock (third-person singular simple present crocks, present participle crocking, simple past and past participle crocked)

1. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.

References

Further reading

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[5] (etymology)
• “crock”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “crock”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “crock”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “crock”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [krɔk], [krok]

Etymology 1

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Noun

crock (plural crocks)

1. an old ewe which has ceased bearing

Etymology 2

From Middle English crokke, from Old English crocca.

Noun

crock (plural crocks)

1. crock (large earthenware vessel for holding milk, cream, salt, butter, etc.)

Derived terms

• crockanition (“complete destruction, fragments”)
• crockums (“refuse of fish livers after the oil has been extracted”)