crock

Etymology 1
From, , from , , from , , from.

The English word is cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, regional 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. See also.

Noun

 * 1) A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
 * 2) * 1590-96,, , 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181,
 * Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his leaſings vain; / Like fooliſh Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.
 * 1) A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
 * 2)  A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
 * 3) * 2006, The Moving Finger, part one (Miss Marple, 15 min, 20 year old bicycling tomboy to injured walker):
 * Girl: "Will you always be a bit of a crock?" Man: "According to my doctor, no." Girl: "I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life."
 * 1)  An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
 * 2)  Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
 * 3) A low stool.
 * 4) * 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (Richard Steele), The Tatler, 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Tatler, 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,
 * I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.
 * 1)  A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
 * 1)  Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
 * 2) A low stool.
 * 3) * 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (Richard Steele), The Tatler, 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Tatler, 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,
 * I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.
 * 1)  A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
 * I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.
 * 1)  A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: глинен съд
 * Czech: hliněný hrnec
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Greek: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: crock
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: чиреп
 * Finnish: ruukunsirpale
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:, таратайка
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, cacharro
 * German: Schrottkiste
 * Greek:
 * Irish: gliogar
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1) To break something or injure someone.
 * 2)  To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
 * 3) * 1917, John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same", US Patent 1371572, page 1:
 * thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.
 * 1)  To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
 * 2)  To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
 * thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.
 * 1)  To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
 * 2)  To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
 * 1)  To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
 * 2)  To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
 * 1)  To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, , правя негоден

Etymology 2
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 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.

Verb

 * 1)  To give off crock or smut.

Noun

 * 1) an old ewe which has ceased bearing

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) crock large earthenware vessel for holding milk, cream, salt, butter, etc.