crock

Noun

1. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
2. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
3. (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
4. (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
5. (Canada, US, countable, slang, uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
6. A low stool.
7. (derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.

Verb

1. To break something or injure someone.
2. To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
3. To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
4. (dialectal, transitive) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.

Verb

To give off crock or smut.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹɒk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: crok

Inherited from Old English: crocc

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: krukke

Cognate with Dutch: kruik

Cognate with German: Kruke

Cognate with Icelandic: krukka

Cognate with Old English: crōg

Cognate with Welsh: croeg

Cognate with Scots: crochit

In summary

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-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.

Synonyms

smut

soot

jar

🫙

earthenware jar

jug

carbon black

pitcher

piece of broken crockery

wreck

lampblack

cistern

pot

potsherd

urn

ruin

soil

stain

stuff

taradiddle

trumpery

twaddle

unstable

vat

blatherskite

colly

water jar

Irish bull

balderdash

lampback

give off coloring matter

give off crock

stripe blight

tarradiddle

baloney

boloney

break down

casserole

chamber pot

defile

dirt

drivel

drool

guff

nonsense

piffle

remains