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Webster 1913 Edition

-ock

-ock

.
[AS.
-uc
.]
A suffix used to form diminutives;
as, bull
ock
, hill
ock
.

Definition 2024

-ock

-ock

See also: ock and öck

English

Suffix

-ock

  1. Forming nouns from nouns, originally with a diminutive sense.
    hillock, haddock, bullock, drillock, ballock, maddock, paddock

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Etymology

From Middle English -ock, from Old English -oc, -uc ‎(diminutive suffix), from Proto-Germanic *-ukaz ‎(“diminutive suffix”). Akin to Old Saxon -ik ‎(diminutive suffix), German -ich, Middle Low German -ken ‎(diminutive suffix), Middle Dutch -kin, Old Norse -kr ‎(diminutive suffix). More at -kin.

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