hock

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• UK: /hɒk/
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• US: /hɑk/
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• rhymes with -ɒk
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• homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Clipping of hockamore, from German.

From Middle English hough, hoche, hokke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-. See also West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hacke, Hack (“heel”); also Lithuanian ki̇̀nka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenklė̃ (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla, “skeleton”).

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.

Probably imitative (a variant form of hawk (“cough”)), like hack (“cough”), although see that entry for more.

From 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”).

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: corveyón — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Asturian: llazarón — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Czech: hlezno — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Dutch: schenkel — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Estonian: kinner — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Finnish: kinner — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• French: jarret — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Galician: bésta — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Galician: bestra — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Galician: corvellón — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Galician: sofraxe — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• German: Haxe — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• German: Hachse — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Irish: speir — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Italian: garretto — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Latin: suffrāgō — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Middle English: hough — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Polish: staw skokowy — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Portuguese: gâmbia — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Russian: скакательный суста́в (skakatelʹnyj sustáv) — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Spanish: corvejón — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Spanish: jarrete — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Spanish: tarso — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Spanish: corvejos — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Swedish: hasled — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Turkish: hanep — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Walloon: djeret — tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped
• Czech: kolínko — meat from that part of a food animal
• Estonian: kints — meat from that part of a food animal
• Estonian: kintsuliha — meat from that part of a food animal
• Finnish: kinner — meat from that part of a food animal
• Galician: xarrete — meat from that part of a food animal
• Italian: garretto — meat from that part of a food animal
• Latin: suffrago — meat from that part of a food animal
• Middle English: hough — meat from that part of a food animal
• Polish: golonka — meat from that part of a food animal
• Polish: udziec — meat from that part of a food animal
• Russian: о́корок (ókorok) — meat from that part of a food animal
• Ukrainian: рулька (rulʹka) — meat from that part of a food animal
• Walloon: djeret — meat from that part of a food animal
• Estonian: põlveõnar — hollow of the knee
• Estonian: põlveõnnal — hollow of the knee
• Estonian: kinner — hollow of the knee
• Korean: 오금 (ogeum) — hollow of the knee
• Polish: dół podkolanowy — hollow of the knee
• Spanish: corva — hollow of the knee
• Spanish: jarrete — hollow of the knee
• Tày: ca noóng kha — hollow of the knee
• Tày: cảo — hollow of the knee
• Tày: coóng cảo — hollow of the knee
• Ukrainian: жижка (žyžka) — hollow of the knee
• Vietnamese: khoeo chân — hollow of the knee
• Bulgarian: залагам (zalagam) — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• Dutch: verpanden — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• Estonian: pantima — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• Finnish: kinner — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• German: verpfänden — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• German: versetzen — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• Polish: zastawiać — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• Polish: zastawić — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• Russian: закла́дывать (zakládyvatʹ) — leave with a pawnbroker as security
• Spanish: empeñarse — leave with a pawnbroker as security