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- [krok]
- /krɒk/
- /krɒk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [krok]
- /krɒk/
Definitions of crock word
- countable noun crock A crock is a clay pot or jar. 3
- countable noun crock If you describe someone as an old crock, you mean that they are old and weak. 3
- countable noun crock If you describe what someone has said as a crock, you mean that you think it is foolish, wrong, or untrue. 3
- noun crock an earthen pot, jar, etc 3
- noun crock a piece of broken earthenware 3
- noun crock a quantity or source of lies or nonsense 3
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Origin of crock
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English crokke, Old English croc(c), crocca pot; cognate with Old Norse krukka jug
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Parts of speech for Crock
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
crock popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
crock usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for crock
noun crock
- vessel — a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.
- pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
- pot — a deep hole; pit.
- container — A container is something such as a box or bottle that is used to hold or store things in.
- crockery — Crockery is the plates, cups, saucers, and dishes that you use at meals.
adjective crock
- planter — a person who plants.
- hollywood — the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- suppositious — formed from or growing out of supposition: suppositious evidence.
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
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