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Literature | Hocking Stopping the highways with ropes, and demanding a gratuity from passengers before they were allowed to pass. (See quotation from Brand under Hock-Day.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | HOCKING, or HOUGHING. A piece of cruelty practised by the butchers of Dublin, on soldiers, by cutting the tendon of Achilles; this has been by law made felony. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Lyrics | Hocking my guitar (Long Time Gone; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) | |
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 | Ohio - the mining troubles in Hocking Valley - scene in the town of Buchtel - the striking miners' reception of "Blackleg" workmen when returning from their work escorted by a detachment of Pinkerton's detectives / from a sketch by Joseph Becker ; Hyde. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Brown hoist, Hocking Valley coal dock, Toledo, O[hio]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Man hocking from his throat . |
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| "HOCKING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.76% of the time. "HOCKING" is used about 29 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 (proper) | 82.76% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 17.24% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "HOCKING" 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 |
| Hocking | Last name | 1,000 | 10,757 |
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Expressions using "HOCKING": Hocking County ♦ Little Hocking. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "HOCKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | verpfändend (bonding, pawning, pledging). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockinghay закладывать (hock, hypothecate, pawn, pop, shove in). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words ending with "HOCKING": chocking, shocking. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HOCKING": shockingly. (additional references) | |
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"HOCKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hicking, Hocken, hokin, hoking, Hokinga, Hokkans, Huckin, Hukawng, yocking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HOCKING" (pronounced hÄ"king) |
| 4 | -Ä" k i ng | blocking, cocking, docking, flocking, knocking, locking, mocking, restocking, rocking, shocking, socking, stocking, undocking, unlocking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: choking. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-k-n-o" | |
-1 letter: coking, hoking. | |
-2 letters: chink, chino, coign, hoick, incog, ohing. | |
-3 letters: chin, chon, cion, coin, coni, conk, gink, hick, hock, hong, honk, icon, ikon, inch, king, kino, nick, nigh, nock, oink. | |
-4 letters: chi, cig, cog, con, ghi, gin, hic, hin, hog, hon, ich, ick, ink, ion, khi, kin, koi, nog, noh. | |
-5 letters: go, hi, ho, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-k-n-o" | |
+1 letter: chocking, hoicking, shocking. | |
+2 letters: chokingly, havocking, unchoking. | |
+3 letters: hopsacking, hummocking, shockingly, shylocking. | |
+4 letters: checkrowing, cornhusking, hopsackings. | |
+5 letters: bodychecking, cockfighting, cornhuskings, forechecking, locksmithing, packinghouse, pitchforking, rockhounding, schnorkeling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 43 4B 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- -.-. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01000011 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O C K I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0043 004B 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42493745434841 |
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