Definitions for crock
krɒkcrock

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crocknoun

   a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

2. crocknoun

   nonsense; foolish talk

   "that's a crock"

3. crock, earthenware jarverb

   an earthen jar (made of baked clay)

4. crockverb

   release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric

5. crockverb

   soil with or as with crock

GCIDERate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Crocknoun

   a person who is worn out with age or illness.

2. Crocknoun

   an old person who complains frequently about illness, especially imaginary ailments.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crocknoun

   A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.

2. crocknoun

   A piece of broken pottery, a shard.

3. crocknoun

   A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.

   Old crocks home = home for the aged

4. crocknoun

   An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).

   Old crocks race = veteran car rally

5. crocknoun

   Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.

6. crockverb

   To break something or injure someone.

7. crockverb

   To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.

8. crockverb

   To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.

9. Etymology: From crokke, from crocc, crocca, from krukkō, from k(')rōug(')-. Cognate with kruik, Krug, krukke, krukka, crog, croh. See also cruse.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CROCKnoun

   A cup; any vessel made of earth.

   Etymology: kruick, Dutch.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crock

   A crock is typically a durable and heat-resistant pot, often made of earthenware, used for various purposes such as cooking and storage. It can also refer to something that is considered nonsense, deceitful, or false.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crocknoun

   the loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth

2. Crockverb

   to soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth

3. Crockverb

   to give off crock or smut

4. Crocknoun

   a low stool

5. Crocknoun

   any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher

6. Crockverb

   to lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter

7. Etymology: [Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit covered.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crock

   krok, n. a pot or jar.—n. Crock′ery, earthenware: vessels formed of baked clay. [A.S. croc; Ger. krug; perh. of Celt. origin, as in W. crochan, a pot, Gael. krogan, a pitcher.]

2. Crock

   krok, n. dirt, smut.—v.i. to dirty.

3. Crock

   krok, n. an old ewe: an old horse. [Cf. Norw. and Sw. krake, a poor beast.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crock

   [from the American scatologism crock of shit] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix make(1), which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to segfault). 2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone to failure if disturbed in the least. For example, a too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics to numeric opcodes algorithmically, a trick which depends far too intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see The Story of Mel' in Appendix A.) Many crocks have a tightly woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure. See kluge, brittle. The adjectives crockish and crocky, and the nouns crockishness and crockitude, are also used.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crock

   [Anglo-Saxon, croca]. An earthen mess-vessel, and the usual vegetables were called crock-herbs. In the Faerie Queene Spenser cites the utensil:-- "Therefore the vulgar did aboute him flocke, Like foolish flies about an honey-crocke."

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CROCK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Crock is ranked #30570 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Crock surname appeared 763 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Crock.
   
   96.5% or 737 total occurrences were White.
   1.4% or 11 total occurrences were Black.
   0.7% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Carbon
   • Nonsense
   • Run
   • Soil

How to pronounce crock?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say crock in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of crock in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of crock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of crock in a Sentence

1. Lee Ermey:

   I love the character, the beautiful thing about Sheriff Hoyt is the simple fact that he’s a sexually perverted homicidal maniac. How do you go over the top with this guy? You can just go crazy with him. Basically, I was allowed to do exactly that. Every character I’ve ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit. I hate to hear ‘Less is more.’ It’s a crock of crap. I think more is more and with this character I was allowed to go just completely berserk, and that’s what I love to do.

2. Joe Bonsall:

   When a fair cancels the Confederate Railroad band because of their name its giving in to fascism, plain and simple and our freedom disappears piece by piece. Sick of it. i must say that canceling @ConfederateRR JUST because their name is CONFEDERATE RAILROAD is a crock of crap.

3. Ron Trujillo:

   What a crock of crap that these people who were involved in vandalizing city property technically get off with a slap on the wrist, all this time there was talk about justice, justice will come, these people will be held accountable. Where’s the accountability? They’re not being held accountable.

4. Douglas Murray:

   We had four years of the Democrats making all discussion of Russia basically impossible because of their crock claims about the Russian conspiracy with the last election.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=crock
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=crock
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Crock
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=crock
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crock
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=crock
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Crock
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=crock
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html