Crossword clues for crock
crock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
crock \crock\, n. nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a crock. [slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English crocc, crocca "pot, vessel," from Proto-Germanic *krogu "pitcher, pot" (cognates: Old Frisian krocha "pot," Old Saxon kruka, Middle Dutch cruke, Dutch kruik, Old High German kruog "pitcher," German Krug, Old Norse krukka "pot"). Perhaps from the same source as Middle Irish crocan "pot," Greek krossos "pitcher," Old Church Slavonic krugla "cup." Used as an image of worthless rubbish since 19c., perhaps from the use of crockery as chamberpots.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container. 2 A piece of broken pottery, a shard. 3 (context UK English) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. 4 (context UK English) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse). 5 (context slang countable and uncountable English) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense. 6 A low stool. vb. 1 To break something or injure someone. 2 (context textiles leatherworking English) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another. 3 (context horticulture English) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage. 4 (context transitive English) To store (butter, etc.) in a crock. Etymology 2
n. 1 The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut. 2 Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth. vb. (context intransitive English) To give off crock or smut.
WordNet
v. release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
soil with or as with crock
n. nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock"
an earthen jar (made of baked clay) [syn: earthenware jar]
Wikipedia
Crock is an American comic strip created by Bill Rechin and Brant Parker depicting the French Foreign Legion. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip began in 1975 and ended in May 2012. , it appeared in 250 newspapers in 14 countries.
Don Wilder took over the writing duties in 1976 as Parker returned his focus to The Wizard of Id. Following the death of Bill Rechin in May 2011, the strip was drawn by Kevin Rechin and written by Bob Morgan, who is Rechin's brother-in-law. Publication of new Crock strips ended with the May 20, 2012, Sunday comic, though reprints of older strips by Bill Rechin will continue to run until at least 2015.
Crock may refer to:
- Crock (comic strip), a daily comic strip that was published from 1975 to 2012
- Crock (dishware), a stoneware pot
- A character in the television show The Wuzzles
Usage examples of "crock".
Crocker believes that the disease is an atrophic degeneration of the skin, dependent on a primary neurosis, to which there is a congenital predisposition.
Prince Serg, and Father was on his staff and knew him, so I guess the Betan version of him is mainly a crock of war propaganda.
John Faa poured little glasses of jenniver from a stone crock for himself and Farder Coram, and wine for Lyra.
She waved a hand toward Dancy, who stood holding the crock along with the basket still slung on his arm.
Reynolds thought it was all a crock, right down to how Hamal claimed he was donating all the proceeds to worthy Muslim charities.
The latch that opened the concealed passageway was in the curtain wall next to the necessarium, beneath a stone shelf holding a lavabo, a crock of scented softsoap, and fine linen handtowels.
Captain Crocker was frowning, and even Commander Mown looked concerned as he read the sheet of hard copy Crocker had passed to him.
All that talk back there in the banquet hall, about the Empire squeezing us out-what a crock of nerf waste.
Supplies-pots, sand, sphaguum, leafmold, loam, osmundine, charcoal, and crocks were kept in an unheated and unglazed room in the rear alongside the shaft where the outside elevator came up.
The wagon is loaded with ceramic crocks of the kind used to hold rapeseed oil, all roped fast to the sideboards.
Crocker, the well-known American welter-weight scrapper, succeeded in stopping Lord Percy Whipple, second son of the Duke of Devizes, better known as the Pride of Old England.
Squads of thanes guided by spunkies had already gone ahead into the sidestreets with crocks and bombshells of tarnblaze, setting buildings alight to sow panic amongst the enemy.
He had been swacked, plastered, crocked, totally wasted, polluted, stinko with power, for he had taken unto himself the role of Death and become the one whom all men feared.
The consulate in Zanzibar, and Crocker and the Germans in Tanga all assure us that the journey is safe and straightforward, so you are not to worry about me, my dearest one.
Crocker had an instance of this nature in a man with tylosis palmae, in which the skin was cast off every autumn, but the process lasted two months.