paddock
A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze…A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
» The cows escaped from the paddock.
Meaning
10 senses(also, figuratively)A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
Koppel
вы́гонvýgon
(broadly)An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
(broadly)An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
Fahrerlager
(broadly, slang)A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
(Australia, New Zealand, broadly)A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
(Australia, New Zealand, broadly)A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
(Australia, New Zealand, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, transitive)A frog.
Cold as a paddock.
(Australia, New Zealand, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, transitive)A toad.
(Australia, New Zealand, Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, derogatory, transitive)A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
(Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, transitive)A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
Examples
7 sentencesThe cows escaped from the paddock.
Two horses are in the paddock.
deZwei Pferde stehen auf der Koppel.
The lambs were in the paddock.
We drove the horses into the paddock.
There are two horses in the paddock.
deZwei Pferde stehen auf der Koppel.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
Origin
The noun is almost certainly a variant of dialectal British parrock (“enclosure; park; croThe noun is almost certainly a variant of dialectal British parrock (“enclosure; park; croft, small field, paddock”), from Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosed pasture, paddock; coop; feeding stall; cabin, hut”) [and other forms], from Old English pearroc, pearruc (“fence used to enclose a space; area enclosed by such a fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *parruk (“enclosure; pen for animals”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence; enclosure”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *barō (“bar, beam; barrier”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”). Equivalent to park + -ock. Doublet of park.
From Middle English paddok, paddoke (“frog; toad”) [and other forms], from pad, pade (“frog; toad”) + -ok (diminutive suffix). Pad, pade is derived from Old English *pada, *padda, padde, from Proto-West Germanic *paddā, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”). The English word is analysable as pad (“(Britain, dialectal) frog; toad”) + -ock (suffix forming nouns, originally with diminutive senses).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source