different between tock vs hock

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.

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