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shock
English
Alternative forms
- choque (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??k/
- (US) IPA(key): /??k/
- Rhymes: -?k, -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkan? (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakan? (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kAg'-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake. Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). More at shog.
Noun
shock (countable and uncountable, plural shocks)
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- (physics) A shock wave.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
Synonyms
See Thesaurus:surprise
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (shokku)
- ? Korean: ?? (syokeu)
Translations
Verb
shock (third-person singular simple present shocks, present participle shocking, simple past and past participle shocked)
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked, to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
- 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque
- They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
- 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “shock”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Etymology 2
Variant of shag.
Noun
shock (plural shocks)
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- 1557, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
- Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
- Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks.
- 1557, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
- (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
- (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.
- (obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
- 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
- When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)
- 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
Verb
shock (third-person singular simple present shocks, present participle shocking, simple past and past participle shocked)
- (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
Anagrams
- Kosch, hocks
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English shock.
Noun
shock m (invariable)
- shock (medical; violent or unexpected event)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English shock.
Noun
shock m (plural shocks)
- shock
Derived terms
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lurch
English
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: lûrch, IPA(key): /l?t??/
- Rhymes: -??(r)t?
Etymology 1
Originally a nautical term, possibly from French lacher (“to let go”).
Noun
lurch (plural lurches)
- A sudden or unsteady movement.
- the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
Translations
Verb
lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)
- To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
Translations
See also
- leave someone in the lurch
- Lurch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Etymology 2
From Latin lurc?re.
Verb
lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)
- (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building
- Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building
Etymology 3
From French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt.
Noun
lurch (countable and uncountable, plural lurches)
- An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
- A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
- August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
- Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
- August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
Verb
lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)
- (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
- Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
- (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lurch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- churl
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