different between jock vs dock

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Unknown. Suggested to be a hypocoristic for John (compare Jack).

Noun

jock (plural jocks)

1. (slang, archaic) A common man.
2. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A Scotsman.

Etymology 2

The computer slang meanings are derived from jockey. The athletic slang meanings in turn date from the middle 20th century and are simple abbreviations of jockstrap, which is in turn derived from the older slang meaning of jock itself, which dates from the 17th century, and whose etymology is unknown.

Noun

jock (plural jocks)

1. (informal) A jockey.
2. (slang, rare, dated) The penis.
3. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports.

   Synonym: jockstrap

4. (US, slang) A young male athlete (through college age).
5. (US, slang, derogatory) An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests, often stereotyped as slow-witted person of large size and great physical strength.
6. (slang) A disc jockey.
7. (US, dated computing slang, in combination) A specialist computer programmer.

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Etymology 3

Verb

jock (third-person singular simple present jocks, present participle jocking, simple past and past participle jocked)

1. (slang) to masturbate

   Synonyms: jack off, jerk off, jock off, wank, wank off

2. (slang) to humiliate

   Synonym: punk

3. (slang) to steal

   Synonym: gank

Yola

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

jock

1. belly

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: Doc, doc

Etymology 1

Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-Germanic *dukk- (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).

Noun

dock (countable and uncountable, plural docks)

1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English dok, from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingirdoccana (“finger muscles”, genitive plural)), from Proto-Germanic *dukk? (compare West Frisian dok (“bunch, ball (twine)”), Low German Dokke (“bundle of straw”), Icelandic dokkur (“stumpy tail”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eu-k- (“to spin, shake”) (compare Lithuanian dv??kti (“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas (“breath”), Albanian dak (“big ram”), Sanskrit ??????? (dhuk?ati, “to blow”)).

Noun

dock (plural docks)

1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
2. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
   • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge

     The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock

3. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
   • 1665, Charles Cotton, Scarronnides:

     And on a Cu?hion ?tuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.

4. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

Translations

Verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

1. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
2. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
3. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.

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Etymology 3

From Middle English dock (“mud channel”), from Middle Dutch docke (“channel”) (modern Dutch dok (“lock (canal)”)), from Old Italian doccia (“conduit, canal”) or Medieval Latin ducta, ductus. More at douche and duct.

Noun

dock (plural docks)

1. (nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
2. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
3. The body of water between two piers.
4. The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
5. A section of a hotel or restaurant.

6. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
7. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
8. An act of docking; joining two things together.

Synonyms

• (body of water between piers): slip
• (structure for loading and unloading vessels): wharf, quay

Hypernyms

• (structure at shore to which vessel is secured): mooring, moorage

Derived terms

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Verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

1. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
   • 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes[2]

     On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.

2. To join two moving items.

   to dock spacecraft
3. (intransitive, sex) To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
4. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
5. (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

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Etymology 4

Originally criminal slang; from or akin to Dutch (Flemish) dok (“cage, hutch”).

Noun

dock (plural docks)

1. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

Related terms

• in the dock

Translations

Etymology 5

Verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

1. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
   • 11 July 2008, Emma Christensen, The Kitchn: How and When to Dock a Pie Crust

     Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.

References

• “dock”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish doch, dogh, dog, thoch, thok, tog, from Middle Low German doch, from Old Saxon th?h‚ from Proto-Germanic *þauh. Replaced native Old Swedish þo, from Old Norse þó.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k?/

Adverb

dock

1. though, however, still, nevertheless