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Hock vs Pock - What's the difference?

hock | pock |

As nouns the difference between hock and pock

is that hock is a rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the hochheim region, but often applied to all rhenish wines or hock can be the tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog or hock can be , obligation as collateral for a loan while pock is a pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.

As verbs the difference between hock and pock

is that hock is to disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough or hock can be (senseid)(colloquial) to leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan or hock can be (us) to bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly while pock is to scar or mark with pits.

hock

English

Etymology 1

From hockamore, from the name of the German town of .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region, but often applied to all Rhenish wines.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hoch, hough, hocke, from Old English ‘skeleton’)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
  • Meat from that part of a food animal.
    • Derived terms
    * rattle one's hocks

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

    • Etymology 3

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (senseid)(colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • , obligation as collateral for a loan.
    • He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
  • *
  • Debt.
    • They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.
  • Installment purchase.
  • *
  • Prison.
    • Derived terms
    * Hock Monday * Hock Tuesday

    Etymology 4

    (Hakn a tshaynik) (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * hak

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with multiple etymologies

    pock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
  • Any pit, especially one formed as a scar

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To scar or mark with pits
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