crock

  • 21Crock — Ortswappen Crock ist ein Ortsteil der Gemeinde Auengrund im Landkreis Hildburghausen im Süden von Thüringen. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Geografie …

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  • 22crock — [[t]krɒ̱k[/t]] crocks 1) N COUNT A crock is a clay pot or jar. [OLD FASHIONED] ...an earthenware bread crock. 2) N COUNT If you describe someone as an old crock, you mean that they are old and weak. [BRIT, INFORMAL, OLD FASHIONED] But you don t… …

    English dictionary

  • 23crock — 1. n. nonsense. (See also crock (of shit).) □ What a crock! You don’t know what you are talking about! □ This whole business is a crock. Hell, life’s a crock! 2. n. a drunkard. □ Give the old crock some money, anything to get him outa here before …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 24crock — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English crocc; akin to Old English crūce pot, pitcher, Middle High German krūche Date: before 12th century 1. a thick earthenware pot or jar 2. [from its formation on cooking pots] dialect soot, smut 3 …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 25crock — English has two words crock. The one meaning ‘earthenware pot’ [OE] is now almost never heard on its own, except perhaps in the phrase ‘crock of gold’, but it is familiar from its derivative crockery [18]. Its immediate antecedents appear to be… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 26crock — English has two words crock. The one meaning ‘earthenware pot’ [OE] is now almost never heard on its own, except perhaps in the phrase ‘crock of gold’, but it is familiar from its derivative crockery [18]. Its immediate antecedents appear to be… …

    Word origins

  • 27Crock — This ancient surname may have French baronial origins. It derives from the villages of Crevecoeur found in the Departments of Calvados, Oise, and Nord, in Normandy and has in the modern spellings, several variant forms. These include Crock, Croke …

    Surnames reference

  • 28crock — noun (C) 1 old use a clay pot 2 crocks (plural) a) BrE old fashioned plates, cups etc, especially made of baked clay b) pieces of broken earthenware (=baked clay) 3 spoken a crock of shit AmE taboo something that is unbelievable, unfair, untrue… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 29crock — UK [krɒk] / US [krɑk] noun Word forms crock : singular crock plural crocks old fashioned 1) [countable] a round container for storing food, usually made of clay 2) crocks [plural] British crockery • a crock (of shit) American offensive something… …

    English dictionary

  • 30crock — I [[t]krɒk[/t]] n. 1) cer an earthenware pot, jar, or other container 2) cer a fragment of earthenware; potsherd • Etymology: bef. 1000; ME crokke, OE croc(c), crocca pot, c. ON krukka jug II crock [[t]krɒk[/t]] n. 1) one that is old or decrepit… …

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