crock
English
/kɹɒk/
noun
Definitions
- A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- (slang) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- A low stool.
- (medical slang) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English crokke inherited from Old English crocc inherited from Proto-Germanic *krukkō inherited from Proto-Indo-European *growg- (vessel).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*growg-
Gloss
vessel
Kanji
器
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- crocker English
- crockery English
- crockeryware English
- crockpot English
- crocky English
- pot English
- Bierkrug German
- Krug German
- Plastekrug German
- baardmankruik Dutch, Flemish
- bedkruik Dutch, Flemish
- jeneverkruik Dutch, Flemish
- kruik Dutch, Flemish
- kruikenmoeder Dutch, Flemish
- warmwaterkruik Dutch, Flemish
- *growg- Proto-Indo-European
- kro Norwegian Bokmål
- *krukkō Proto-Germanic
- kro Norwegian Nynorsk
- krukke Norwegian Nynorsk
- crocc Old English
- crōg Old English
- crokke Middle English
- croo Middle English
- krukka Old Norse
- krukka Icelandic
- crûke Middle Dutch
- kruog Old High German
- krugo Ido
- kruoc Middle High German
- Krou Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch