crock – English noun declension

English noun forms of crock

Noun: crock
Singularcrock
Pluralcrocks

Sample Sentences

  • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181,
  • Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his leaſings vain; / Like fooliſh Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.
  • He thin swore what he wouldn't do to him iv he didn't show him whare his money was. Tom luked so wicked, an' so bloody-minded, that the little man was quite frightened. "So," sez he, "come along wid me a couple o' fields aff, an' I'll show ye a crock o' gould." [1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 375:]
  • old crocks’ home (home for the aged)
  • He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance. […] “Not so bad that, for a crock,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask. [1925, John Buchan, John Macnab, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0300621:]
  • He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can′t ask a girl to marry a crock.” [1932, Helen Simpson, Boomerang, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0800611:]
  • Girl: "Will you always be a bit of a crock?"
  • Man: "According to my doctor, no."
  • Girl: "I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life." [2006, The Moving Finger, part one (Miss Marple, 15 min, 20 year old bicycling tomboy to injured walker)]
  • old crocks race (veteran car rally)
  • That's a bunch of crock.
  • The story is a crock.
  • 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (Richard Steele), The Tatler, 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Tatler, 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,
  • I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.
  • [1959, Kenneth Hammond, Fred Kern, Teaching Comprehensive Medical Care^([470]), →OCLC, pages A: Well, yes. Nobody likes crocks. Q: Why not? A: They're a nuisance. There is nothing ever wrong with them and they are even so peculiar they never have diseases other people do.:]
  • Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously. [1976, Stephen Charles Frankel, Emergency Medical Care in an Urban Area, page 118:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. The English word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik (“jar, jug”), regional German Kruke (“crock”), Icelandic krukka (“pot, jar”), Old English crōg, crōh (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). See also cruse. See: Middle English Nouns 'crok', Old English Nouns 'crocc', Dutch Nouns 'kruik', German Nouns 'Kruke', Icelandic Nouns 'krukka'.

Verbs referencing "crock"

German Nouns Krug, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns krukke, German Nouns Kruke.