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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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crock

UK /kɹɒk/ · US /kɹɑk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms crocks crocking crocked

  1. noun (countable) A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  2. noun (countable) A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  3. noun (UK, slang, countable) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. “old crocks’ home”
  4. noun (UK, countable, slang) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe). “old crocks race”
  5. noun (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense. “That's a bunch of crock.”
  6. noun (countable) A low stool.
  7. noun (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
  8. verb To break something or injure someone.
  9. verb (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
  10. verb (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
  11. verb (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
  12. noun The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
  13. noun Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
  14. verb (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

banger beater bucket of bolts bucket of rust clunker crate flivver gas guzzler hooptie jalopy junker lemon old banger rattletrap rustbucket shed shitbox shitpot shitcan shitbucket carbon black lampblack soot smut earthenware jar

Etymology

From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *krokku, *krokkō, from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”).
The English word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik (“jar, jug”), regional German Kruke (“crock”), Icelandic krukka (“pot, jar”), Old English crōg, crōh (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). See also cruse.

Compare Welsh croeg (“cover”), Scots crochit (“covered”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun 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. verb To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
  3. verb To give off crock or smut.
  4. noun A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock." Tatler.

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

Etymology [AS. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel. krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka; but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen vessel, jar. Cf. Cruet.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “crock”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details