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▪ I. crock, n.1|krɒk|
Forms: 1 crocca, 3 krocke, 3–7 crocke, 4 crokk(e, 5–6 crok, 6– crock.
[OE. croc(c and crocca masc., earthenware pot or pitcher, related to Icel. krukka f. (Da. krukke, Sw. kruka) in same sense; and perh. more remotely to croh, and crouke. Whether the Celtic words, MIr. crocan, Gael. crogan (see croggan), Welsh crochan ‘pot’, are related, is not determined.]
1. An earthen pot, jar, or other vessel.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 238 Do [the herbs] on anne niwne croccan. a1225Ancr. R. 346 Kulle al ut þet is iðe krocke. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles ii. 52 Cast adoun the crokk the colys amyd. 1542MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For a crock to put mylk in jd. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. ii. 33 The vulgar did about him flocke..Like foolish flies about an hony-crocke. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 63 Crock, an Earthen pot to put butter or the like in. 1709Steele Tatler No. 37 ⁋3 His Whip throws down a Cabinet of China: He cries, What! Are your Crocks rotten? 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. ii. 121 Her only furniture An earthen crock or two.
2. A pot of iron or other metal. (S.W. of Eng.)
c1475Exeter Tailors' Gild in Eng. Gilds 320 A brasen krocke of ij galons and more, a pache clowted in the brem with laten. 1605in Wadley Bristol Wills (1886) 269 The lesser brasse Crocke. 1746Exmoor Courtship (E.D.S.) 88 Thare be more..than can boil tha crock. 1885E. C. Sharland Ways & Means Devonsh. Vill. 60 A pie made in a crock—the big kettle you see hanging over the fire in farm-houses. 1888W. Somerset Word-bk., Crock..a cast-iron cooking-pot only..It has a loose bow-handle..and three little legs.
3. A broken piece of earthenware, a potsherd, such as is used to cover the hole in a flower-pot.
1850Florist 84 Turn it out of the pot, remove the crocks. 1851Glenny Handbk. Fl. Gard. 10 Put a layer of crocks to reach one-third of the height of the pot.
4. Comb., as crock-butter; crockman, a seller of crockery; crock-saw, an iron bar with teeth like a saw, suspended over a fire-place to carry ‘crocks’ or pots; crock-stick, a stick used to stir a pot, support the lid, etc.; a ‘thivel’.
14..Metr. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 626/8 Contus, crokstyke. 1792J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ode to Acad. Chair Wks. 1812 III. 49 Get thyself to Skewers and Crock-sticks turn'd. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 44 His avocation as a crockman. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xiv. (ed. 12) 84 Master Huckaback stood up, without much aid from the crock-saw. 1879Shropshire Gloss., Crock-butter, butter salted and put down in a crock for winter use.
▸ orig. U.S. a. coarse slang. crock of shit n. (a) a lot of nonsense, a pack of lies; (b) an atrocious or undesirable state of affairs.
In quot. 1944 with sugar used euphemistically for shit (cf. sugar n. Additions).
[1944Stars & Stripes (Mediterranean ed., Rome) 18 Oct. 4/3, I think it's a crock of sugar.] 1945in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K (1978) 254 Dat's a crock of sheet! We no get racial equality een Hawaii. 1957K. Williams Diary 7 Aug. (1993) 135 What an incredible lot of amateurs I am among! What a crock of shit. 1985J. Adams Good Intentions xxi. 162 That was sure a crock of shit—Peggy knew all right. 2000W. Self How Dead Live (2001) viii. 197 Cook was grateful for death—considering what a crock of shit his life had become.
b. Short for crock of shit n. (a) at Additions a.
1945Yank 3 Aug. 14/1 ‘That,’ observed Winters softly, ‘is a crock.’ Haddington's lips silently finished the phrase. 1970Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 5 Sept. 8/5 There's this guy in the Woodstock movie ads who testifies that his life will never be the same because he was present at the great Rock Outpouring. What a crock! 2002I. Knight Don't you want Me? ix. 116 The thing about single women over the age of twenty-five never getting any offers is a complete crock.
▸ crock pot n. Cookery (orig. U.S.) (originally) = sense 1; (now) spec. (also with capital initials) (a proprietary name for) a lidded pot with an integral electrical heating element, for cooking food at low temperatures for long periods; a slow cooker.
1945A. V. Manning in B. A. Botkin Lay my Burden Down ii. 97 It ain't a bit cold in that place, and we didn't have no fire 'cepting to cook, and sometimes a little charcoal fire in some *crock pots that the people left. 1956Daily Jrnl. (Commerce, Texas) 15 Feb. 3/2 After selecting the plant the pot to use should be selected... A crock pot is best as it doesn't freeze so easily in winter. 1971Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 11 Mar. 14 (advt.) The Crock Pot... For slow electric cookery. 1994Canad. Geographic July–Aug. 58/3 Traditional..fare made of potatoes, barley and stuffed derma, or intestines, which have been stewing in a crock pot since Friday.
▪ II. crock, n.2 Obs. exc. dial.|krɒk|
[Derivation doubtful; by Ray app. identified with prec.]
Smut, soot, dirt.
1657H. Crowch Welsh Trav. 496 Was all bedawb'd hurself with crock. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 63 Crock, to black one with soot or black of a pot or kettle or chimney-stock, this black or soot is also substantively called Crock. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. vii, The boy grimed with crock and dirt. 1875Sussex Gloss., Crock, a smut or smudge. 1883Harper's Mag. Apr. 665/1 New England expressions here are..‘You have a crock on your nose’, for a smut.
▪ III. crock, n.3 Chiefly Sc.|krɒk|
Also 6 crocke, 6–8 crok.
[Cf. Norw. krake, krakje a sickly, weakly, or emaciated beast (Aasen), Sw. krake, Da. krak, krakke; LG. krake, krakke, NFris. krack a sorry, broken-down horse; MDu. kraecke, MFlem. krake a broken-down horse or house; EFris. krakke a broken-down horse, house, or old man: all app. related to crack v.]
1. An old ewe, or one that has ceased bearing. Also crock ewe.
1528Lyndesay Dreme 893 Quho wyll go sers amang sic heirdis scheip, May habyll fynd mony pure scabbit crok. 1570Levins Manip. 158 A crocke, shepe, adasia. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 182 Twa croks that moup amang the heather. 1785Burn Twa Herds i, Wha will tent the waifs and crocks? 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 139 The crock ewes.
2. An old broken-down horse.
1879Daily News 7 Mar. 6/1, I was riding a broken-kneed old crock. 1892R. Boldrewood Nevermore III. xxii. 131 That horse of hers..I'd like to have..instead of my old crock.
3. slang. Used contemptuously of persons. Now usu. a broken-down or physically debilitated person; an invalid; a hypochondriac. colloq. or dial.
1876O. Madox-Brown Dwale Bluth II. v. 158 Hare sher cumes at learst... Th'little doiling crock! 1880W. H. Patterson Gloss. Antrim & Down 25 Crock, sb. a derisive term for a person who fancies himself ailing or delicate. 1889Illustr. Bits 13 July 4/2 You are getting a bit of a crock—failing fast, I should say. 1891Farmer Slang Dict., Applied to men and things, crock is synonymous with worthlessness and folly. 1920R. Macaulay Potterism iv. iii. 149 Shall we be a race of clever crocks, or..be robust imbeciles? 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment iv. 58 Chance ..gave me the job of marching parties of crocks, total and partial, real, half-real, and sham, across..to the place where the faculty did its endeavour to sort them. 1969Sci. Amer. Feb. 69/2 Physicians..blame the patient by labeling him a ‘crock’—medical slang for a neurotic complainer.
4. slang. An old, worn-out vehicle, ship, bicycle, etc.; esp. as old crock.
1903Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 123 But if those cruisers are crocks, why does the Admiral let 'em out of Weymouth at all? 1905G. B. Shaw in Grand Mag. Feb. 116 An old crock of a 1904 six-cylinder car. 1914A. Bennett Price of Love xii. 242 I'm going to buy you a bike. I've had enough of that old crock I borrowed for you. 1935H. G. Wells Things to Come ix. 71, I understand you want all of these out-of-date crocks of yours..to fly again. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. iii. 55 When boys see an antiquated machine [sc. bicycle] they shout:..‘Sell that crock and buy a bike.’
▪ IV. † crock, n.4 Obs. Hawking.
= croak n. 2.
1615Latham Falconry (1633) 80 Whereof commeth the Crocke and diuers other diseases. a1667Skinner Etym., Crock, morbus accipitrum.
So crock v.3
1615Latham Falconry xxviii, A Hawke..before shee cold be conueniently taken to the fist, hath euen crockt again and again.
▪ V. crock, n.5 Obs. or dial.|krɒk|
Also crook, cruk.
[app. related to crook n., but the phonology is obscure.]
(See quots.)
1570Levins Manip. 158/15 Y⊇ Croks of a house, bijuges. 1828Craven Dial. I. 93 Crockes, two crooked timbers, of a natural bend, forming a Gothic arch. They generally rest in large blocks of stone. Many roofs of this construction are still remaining in ancient farm-houses and barns. 1886Cheshire Gloss., Crooks, the main timbers of an old black and white house. 1890S. O. Addy (Sheffield) Note, Cruks pl., the arched oaken timbers which support the roofs of some old houses. These timbers rise from the ground and reach to the ridge of the roof.
▪ VI. † crock, n.6 Obs. or ? dial.
[Origin unknown: prob. related to cricket3.]
? A low stool.
1709Addison Tatler No. 116 ⁋1, I..seated her upon a little Crock at my Left Hand. [Cf.1873Swaledale Gloss., Crocket, a small wooden stool.]
▪ VII. crock, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[f. crock n.1]
trans. To put up in a crock or pot; see also quot. 1887.
1594Lyly Moth. Bombie iii, Wit would worke like waxe & crocke up gold like honey. 1859Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XX. i. 51 Butter is crocked for winter supply. 1887Kentish Gloss., Crock, to put away; lay by; save up; hide..‘Crocking it [butter] up till it's no use to nobody.’
▪ VIII. crock, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.
[f. crock n.2]
a. trans. To smut with soot or grime; to soil, defile. Hence crocked ppl. a.
1642Rogers Naaman 355 He shall take thee from among the crokt pots. Ibid. 860 Suffers them to be crockt among the pots. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. (1669) 100/2 The Collier and Fuller..what one cleanseth, the other will crock and smutch. 1674[see crock n.2]. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. (1839) 413 Without blacking and crocking myself. 1860O. W. Holmes E. Venner xxii, They'll ‘crock’ your fingers.
fig.c1680Hickeringill Hist. Whiggism Wks. 1716 I. 20 He crocks every Man in the mouth (with his Pen) that stands in the way of Popish Designs.
b. intr. To give off ‘crock’ or smut.
In mod. Dicts.
c. To impart colour or dye to other articles, to stain: said also of the colour.
1855Knickerbocker XLV. 566 A pair of green gloves..had ‘crocked off’ very generously to whatever was in contact with them. 1885A. Watt Leather Manuf. 322 The clear colours do not ‘crock’ so easily, and the little that does come off is hardly noticeable. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 3/1 This black is perfectly fast color and will not crock.
▪ IX. crock, v.3
see after crock n.4
▪ X. crock, v.4 colloq.
[f. crock n.3]
intr. To become feeble, collapse, give way, break down. Also trans., to cause to collapse; to injure or disable. Often with up. Hence crocked ppl. a.1, hurt, damaged, disabled; crocking vbl. n., collapsing, breaking down.
1846J. T. & W. E. Brockett Gloss. N. Country Words I. 114 Crock, to grow little in bulk, to suffer decay from age. 1893Idler Mar. 221 An oarsman who is likely to ‘crock up’. 1896Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 2/1 Smith has crocked his knee. 1900Ibid. 17 Dec. 8/2 The northern player, who is less likely to get ‘crocked’ than the Richmond man. 1906Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 9/7 He limped out to bat, after remaining in obscurity as a crocked player for half a day. 1926Spectator 12 June 983/1 Dressing is accomplished quickly considering my crocked-up hand. 1928Observer 19 Feb. 28/6 Slogging home against the present stream would safeguard a crew against crocking later on. 1960Times 22 Oct. 8/6, I had ‘crocked’ my knee at hockey.
▪ XI. crock
see croc1. |