different between beck vs bock

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”).

Cognate with Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck, Old English bæc, bec, bæ?e, be?e (“beck, brook”). Doublet of batch. More at beach.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 3[1]:

     […] Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets […]

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIII:

     {...} the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• Troutbeck

Etymology 2

From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English b?cnan, b?acnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukn? (“beacon”). More at beacon.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.

Derived terms

• beck and call

Translations

Verb

beck (third-person singular simple present becks, present participle becking, simple past and past participle becked)

1. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

Etymology 3

See back.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. A vat.

Etymology 4

From Middle English bec, bek, from Old French bec (“beak”),

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. Obsolete form of beak.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k(i)

Noun

beck m (plural becks)

1. Alternative spelling of beque

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German pik, from Latin pix. See also Dutch pek, German Pech.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: bäck

Noun

beck n

1. pitch; A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.

Declension

Related terms

• becksvart

English

Etymology

From German Bockbier.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophones: balk, bok

Noun

bock (countable and uncountable, plural bocks)

1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

French

Noun

bock m (plural bocks)

1. a beer glass having the capacity of approximately a quarter of a litre
2. the content of such a beer glass

Related terms

• sous-bock

Further reading

• “bock” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish boc, poc, pocc (“he-goat”) (compare Irish boc).

Noun

bock m (genitive singular bock, plural buick)

1. buck, male (of animals)
2. gelding

Derived terms

• bock goayr (“billygoat”)

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “poc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bukker, bokker, from Old Norse bokkr, bukkr, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz‚ from Proto-Indo-European *b?u?no-, *b?ukkos, *b?ugkó-.

Noun

bock c

1. a buck; the male of goat and deer
2. the tick mark (?), indicating incorrectness in Swedish schoolbooks
3. a sawhorse
4. a mount for a (roller) bearing
5. a bend or fold of sheet metal
6. a tool to bend or fold sheet metal
7. leapfrog is called hoppa bock
8. a gymnastics tool for leapfrogging

Declension

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