Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable)A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.

    горшо́кgoršók

  2. (countable)A piece of broken pottery, a shard.

    черепо́кčerepók

  3. (UK, countable, slang)A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.

    old crocks’ home

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

    old crocks race

    Schrottkiste

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

    That's a bunch of crock.

    The story is a crock.

    nonsense; foolish talk

  6. (countable)A low stool.

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

  8. (uncountable)The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.

  9. (uncountable)Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Believe me, everything he's told you is a crock.

    ruПоверь мне, всё, что он тебе рассказал, - это бред сивой кобылы. — marafon

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  2. What a crock!

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  3. Ziri asked Rima if he could borrow her crock pot.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
stoneware or earthenware jar:
piece of broken pottery, a shard:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse):

Origin

From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; bel

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-West Germanic *krokku, *krokkō, from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”).

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

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Forms

plural: crocks
Singularcrock
Pluralcrocks

regular

Synonyms

28 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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