hock

Etymology 1
, from.

Noun

 * 1) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ), from  (compare 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬).

Noun



 * 1)  The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
 * 2) Meat from that part of a food animal.
 * 3)  The hollow behind the knee.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, bestra, corvellón, sofraxe
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: suffrago
 * Middle English: hough
 * Polish: staw skokowy
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: скакательный суста́в
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hasled
 * Turkish: hanep
 * Walloon:


 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: suffrago
 * Middle English: hough
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Walloon:


 * Tày:, cảo, coóng cảo
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

 * 1)  To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Hypernyms

 * See Thesaurus:disable

Etymology 3
From the phrase, circa 1855-60, from. Compare also 🇨🇬, see.

Verb

 * 1)  To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
 * He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
 * 1) Debt.
 * They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.
 * 1) Installment purchase.
 * 2) Prison.
 * 1) Prison.
 * 1) Prison.

Etymology 4
From, imperative singular form of , from the idiomatic expression.

Verb

 * 1)  To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.

Etymology 5
Probably imitative (a variant form of ), like, although see that entry for more.

Derived terms

 * hocker

Noun

 * 1)  The last card turned up in the game of faro.

Derived terms

 * from soda to hock