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Definition: Crock |
CrockNoun1. An earthen jar (made of baked clay). Verb1. Release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric. 2. Soil with soot. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Computing | Crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix `make(1)', which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to segfault). 2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone to failure if disturbed in the least. For example, a too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics to numeric opcodes algorithmically, a trick which depends far too intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see The Story of Mel in Appendix A.) Many crocks have a tightly woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure. See kluge, brittle. The adjectives `crockish' and `crocky', and the nouns `crockishness' and `crockitude', are also used. Source: Jargon File. |
Industry | Particulate matter, usually coloured, which can be removed from some suede leather by dry rubbing. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: CrockSynonym: earthenware jar (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy. |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crock |
| English words defined with "crock": Crocking, Crouke. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crock": FLUX MIXER ♦ Lasherism ♦ quick-and-dirty. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crock": Cruet. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Crock" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (chimneypot, jar, urn). |
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Screenplays | It's a bunch of crock! They're trying to sell sodas. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) So you can come and tell me what a crock it is? (Ticket to Heaven; writing credit: Anne Cameron; Josh Freed) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mrs. Sauer getting sauerkraut out of crock. Cavalier County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Glug glug of the water cooler jug emptying into the crock. |
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| "Crock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crock" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "crock" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crock | Last name | 200 | 33,999 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "crock": crock Pot ♦ crock the project up ♦ crock up ♦ old crock ♦ suede crock. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "crock": crock-filled. | |
Ending with "crock": stew-crock. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), shishe pije, poçe (balloon, jar, Jerry, night-chair, night-stool, pipkin, pot), enë balte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فخار (biscuit, crockery, porcelain, pottery, pride, stoneware), فرس أو نعجة, كسرة فخار, قدر من الفخار (jug), سخام (bloat, colly, grime, smut, soot), جعله فاشلا, جرة (jar, jug, pitcher), إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), آلة قديمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хипоходрик, чиреп (shard, sherd), таратайка (bone shaker, flivver, heap, rattler, rattletrap, shandrydan), кранта (aver, hack, jade, nag, plug, rip, scalawag, scallywag, screw, skate), глинен съд, вечно оплакващ се пациент, правя негоден (disable, disqualify, incapacitate, indispose, lame, unfit), похабявам се (go to waste), инвалид (cripple, invalid, shut in), изтощавам (bucket, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | střípek, rachotina (rattletrap, rattle-trap), hlinìný hrnec, herka (hack, nag), džbán (jug, jugful, tankard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slibestoev (suede crock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slijpstof (suede crock), schuurstof (suede crock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سبو (Jar), خمره (Vat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hiontapöly (suede crock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cruche, crouler, cheval fourbu, vieux clou, vieille rosse, vaisselle (crockery), poussière de ponçage (suede crock), pot de terre, morceau de tesson. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | klepper (crocks, hack, jade, nag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στάμνα (jar, jug, pitcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חרס (clay, piece of pottery, shard, sherd). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | korsó (jar, jug, mug, pitcher, pot, stoop), kikészült ember, hasznavehetetlen ember (he is a wash-out, piker), cserépedény (crockery, earthenware, pottery), cserépdarab (shard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tempayan (urn), periuk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vaso di terracotta, ronzino (jade, nag), pulviscolo (dust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 壺焼き (shellfish cooked in its own shell, sweet potatoes cooked in a crock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つぼやき (shellfish cooked in its own shell, sweet potatoes cooked in a crock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur veih'n vie, crockan (earthenware vessel, jar, pitcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockcray caneca (mug, muz), caco velho, serragem (sawdust), panela de barro, pó (clay, cosmetic powder, dust, earthenware, fug, powder), jarro (arum, box, can, ewer, jar, jug, jugful, pitcher, vessel), inutilizar (disenable, flaw, frustrate, torpedo), fuligem (black, grime, smut, soot), farinha de couro (suede crock), debilitar (attenuate, debilitate, depress, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, impair, impoverish, languish, unbrace, undermine, unnerve, weaken), adoecer (fall ill, languish, make ill, sicken). (various references) ciob (fragment, shiver), cal prãpãdit (jade), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), ruina (bankrupt, blast, blight, destroy, dilapidate, impair, Mar, overturn, ravage, ruin, sink, undo), rablã (jalopy, rattletrap), om epuizat, oalã (kettle, pot, saucepan), maşinã uzatã, mârţoagã (hack, jade, nag, rip, runt, tit, weed), istovi (exhaust, fag, fag out, haze, jade, kill, knock off, rack, try, wither), hârb (fragment, shiver), gloabã (hack, jade, nag, plug, rip, skin), epuiza (consume, deplete, distress, drain, drive, emaciate, exhaust, jade, outwork, overdrive, prostrate, spend, use up, waste), epava, distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references) старая овца, старая лошадь, кляча (aver, hack, jade, nag, rip, wretched nag), выматывать (exhaust), заездить (jade). (various references) crog (a jar, an aged ewe, an earthen vessel). (various references) zemljani lonac. (various references) cacharro pequeño, cacharro (bone shaker, grid, jalopy), vasijilla de cocina, vasija (vascular, vessel), usar un cacharro, pelusa de ante (suede crock), pelusa (down, fluff, fuzz, shag). (various references) lerkruka. (various references) yaşlı at (plug), toprak kap kırığı, saksı (bean, chump, flowerpot, jardiniere, noodle, pot, sconce), sakat (cripple, crippled, defective, disabled, funny, game, gammy, handicapped, incapable of working, infirm, invalid, lame, lame duck, malformed, wonky), külüstür araç, güveç (casserole, hot pot, marmite, Olla, pipkin, stew, stewpan), aciz kimse (lame duck), çömlek (earthenware pot, jug, pot). (various references) сажа (black, smut, soot), череп'яний глечик (chatty, graybeard, greybeard), черепок (potsherd, shard, sherd), виснажувати (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, distress, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, pull down, sap, use up, waste), заїздити (jade), забруднювати сажею, позбутися сили. (various references) người t n tật (dodderer, invalid), bình s nh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crock": crocked, crockeries, crockery, crocket, crocketed, crockets, crocking, crocks. (additional references) | |
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"Crock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carnock, carrock, ceoc, ceroc, cocc, Coeck, coock, Corsock, cracka, cracky, crc, crecca, creck, creco, crickl, croack, croce, croch, croci, Crocky, crocy, crok, croke, Cronk, croock, crox, crrec, cruci, cruck, crusk, Curnock, Currock, Krock, srock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crock" (pronounced krÄ"k) |
| 4 | k r Ä" k | Croc. |
| 3 | -r Ä" k | Brock, frock, Roc, rock. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-k-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cock, cork, croc, rock. | |
-2 letters: cor, kor, orc, roc. | |
-3 letters: or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-k-o-r" | |
+1 letter: cocker, crocks, recock. | |
+2 letters: caprock, clocker, cockers, cockier, crocked, crocket, gorcock, recocks. | |
+3 letters: caprocks, charlock, checkrow, chickory, clockers, coatrack, cockcrow, cockered, cockerel, cockspur, cocksure, corncake, crackpot, crockery, crockets, crocking, gorcocks, moorcock, princock, recocked, stockcar. | |
+4 letters: backcourt, backcross, charlocks, checkroom, checkrows, clockwork, coachwork, coatracks, cockcrows, cockerels, cockering, cockhorse, cocklebur, cockroach, cockspurs, corkscrew, corncakes, corncrake, crackdown, crackpots, crocketed, crookback, crookneck, cuckoldry, forecheck, moorcocks, princocks, recocking, slickrock, stockcars. | |
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