different between hock vs mortgage

English

Etymology 1

From hockamore, from the name of the German town of Hochheim am Main.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h?k/
• Rhymes: -?k, -?k
• Homophone: hawk (accents with cot-caught merger)

Noun

hock (countable and uncountable, plural hocks)

1. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.

See also

• claret, sack, tent

Etymology 2

From Middle English hoch, hough, hocke, from Old English h?h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (compare West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hack), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk (compare Lithuanian kìnka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenkl?? (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit ?????? (ka?k?la, “skeleton”)).

Noun

hock (plural hocks)

1. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
2. Meat from that part of a food animal.

Derived terms

• rattle one's hocks

Translations

Verb

hock (third-person singular simple present hocks, present participle hocking, simple past and past participle hocked)

1. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Synonyms

• hamstring, hough, hox

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:disable

Etymology 3

From the phrase in hock, circa 1855-60, from Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”). Compare also Middle English hukken (“to sell; peddle; sell at auction”), see huck.

Verb

hock (third-person singular simple present hocks, present participle hocking, simple past and past participle hocked)

2. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.

Translations

Noun

hock (uncountable)

1. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.

   He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
2. Debt.

   They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.

3. Installment purchase.
4. Prison.

Derived terms

• Hock Monday
• Hock Tuesday

References

Etymology 4

From Yiddish ????? (hak), imperative singular form of ?????? (hakn, “to knock”), from the idiomatic expression ???? ??? ???? ???? ???????? (hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik, “don't knock a teakettle at me”)

Alternative forms

• hak

Verb

hock (third-person singular simple present hocks, present participle hocking, simple past and past participle hocked)

1. (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly

Etymology 5

Variant of hack; from Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian ("to hack"; attested in t?haccian (“to hack to pieces”)), from Proto-Germanic *hakk?n? (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).

Noun

hock (plural hocks)

1. To cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
   1. To cough while the vomit reflex is triggered; to gag.
   2. To produce mucus from coughing or clearing one's throat.

Derived terms

• hocker

Anagrams

• Koch

English

Alternative forms

• morgage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman morgage, Middle French mortgage, from Old French mort gage (“death pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum vadium or mortuum wadium, from mortuum + vadium or wadium, of Germanic (Frankish) origin, from a root *waddi, wadja. Compare gage and also wage. So called because the deal dies either when the debt is paid or when payment fails.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??.??d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??.??d?/

Noun

mortgage (plural mortgages)

1. (law) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.

2. (obsolete) State of being pledged.

Derived terms

• anaconda mortgage
• mortgage-backed

Translations

Verb

mortgage (third-person singular simple present mortgages, present participle mortgaging, simple past and past participle mortgaged)

1. (transitive, law) To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.

Related terms

• mortgagee
• mortgager

Translations