crock
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage containerA stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
» Believe me, everything he's told you is a crock.
Поверь мне, всё, что он тебе рассказал, - это бред сивой кобылы. — marafon
Поверьте мне, всё, что он вам рассказал, - это бред сивой кобылы. — marafon
darinmex · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
9 senses(countable)A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
горшо́кgoršók
(countable)A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
черепо́кčerepók
(UK, countable, slang)A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
old crocks’ home
(UK, countable, slang)An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
old crocks race
Schrottkiste
(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
(countable)A low stool.
(countable, derogatory, uncountable)A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
(uncountable)The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
(uncountable)Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
Examples
3 sentencesBelieve me, everything he's told you is a crock.
ruПоверь мне, всё, что он тебе рассказал, - это бред сивой кобылы. — marafon
What a crock!
Ziri asked Rima if he could borrow her crock pot.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belFrom 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: crocksSynonyms
24 synonyms- an earthen jar (made of baked clay):earthenware jar
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink:carbon blacklampblacksootsmut
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.