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Crock

//kɹɒk// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
"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."
2
The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut. uncountable
"[…] “here I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from the hair of his head to the sole of his foot!”"
3
an earthen jar (made of baked clay) wordnet
4
A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
5
Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth. uncountable

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6
nonsense; foolish talk wordnet
7
A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. UK
"old crocks’ home"
8
a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink wordnet
9
An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe). UK
"old crocks race"
10
Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense. Canada, US, countable, slang, uncountable
"That's a bunch of crock."
11
A low stool.
"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."
12
A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness. derogatory
"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."

Verb

1
To break something or injure someone.
""That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ...""
2
To give off crock or smut. intransitive
3
soil with or as with crock wordnet
4
To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
"thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter."
5
release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric wordnet

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6
To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
"The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated..."
7
To put or store (something) in a crock or pot. dialectal, transitive
"She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool."

Etymology

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

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

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