Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• Hout (Moselle Franconian)
• Huut (western Ripuarian)
• Huck (Kölsch)

Noun

Hock f ‎(plural Höck)

1. (central and eastern Ripuarian) skin

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɒk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑk/
• Rhymes: -ɒk, -ɑk

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 hōh, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (compare West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, Low German Hack), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk (compare Lithuanian kìnka ‘leg, thigh, knee-cap’, kenklė̃ ‘knee-cap’, Sanskrit कङ्काल ‎(kaṅkāla) ‘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.

Etymology 3

From English phrase in hock circa 1855-60, from Dutch hok ‎(“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”). ^[1]

Verb

hock ‎(third-person singular simple present hocks, present participle hocking, simple past and past participle hocked)

1. (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.

   • 2012 April 25, Patty Murphy, “Business bulletin”, in Associated Press, page 10A:

     But Ford Motor Co. needs another agency, either Standard & Poor's or Moody's, to make the same upgrade before it can get its blue oval logo, factories and other assets out of hock.

2. Debt.

   They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.

3. Installment purchase.
   • 2007, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself, page 28:

     Later, Uncle Doc bought a couch on hock, then a bed.

4. Prison.

Derived terms

• Hock Monday
• Hock Tuesday

References

1. ↑ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hock

Etymology 4

Yiddish האַק ‎(hak), imperative singular form of האַקן ‎(hakn, “to knock”), from the idiomatic expression האַק מיר נישט קיין טשײַניק ‎(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

Anagrams

• Koch