Hock Definition
- rhenish
- rhine wine
- hock-joint
(colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
- in (or out of) pawn
- in (or out of) debt
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hock
- in hock
Origin of Hock
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From Middle English hoch, hough, hocke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (cf. West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, Low German Hack), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk (compare Lithuanian kìnka ‘leg, thigh, knee-cap’, kenklė̃ ‘knee-cap’, Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla) ‘skeleton’)
From Wiktionary
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Yiddish האַק (hak), imperative singular form of האַקן (hakn, “to knock”), from the idiomatic expression האַק מיר נישט קען טשײַניק (hak mir nisht ken tshaynik, “don't hock me a teakettle”)
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Short for obsolete Hockamore alteration of German Hochheimer from Hochheim , a town of west-central Germany
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From hockamore, from the name of the German town of Hochheim am Main.
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Middle English hokke from Old English hōh heel
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Probably from Dutch hok prison
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Dutch hok (“prison, debt”).
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