different between jock vs hock

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.

Translations

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

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Etymology

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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

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