different between bock vs tock

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

Related terms

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: talk (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

tock (plural tocks)

1. (used in conjunction with tick) A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.

Derived terms

• tick-tock

Verb

tock (third-person singular simple present tocks, present participle tocking, simple past and past participle tocked)

1. To produce such a sound.
   • 2002, Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann

     The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.

   • 1967, William Gray Purcell, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin

     The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.