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hocket | hocked |

As a noun hocket

is hiccup.

As a verb hocked is

(hock).

hocket

English

(Hocket)

Noun

(en noun)
  • hiccup
  • * 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
    • All of these tend to produce something of a hiccough effect we know as hocket and which Reese suggests has a long history dating back to primitive instruments.
  • (music) In medieval music, hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
  • * 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
    • Hocket is a contrapuntal technique described by the early fourteenth-century Walter Odington as "A truncation … made over the tenor … in such a way that one voice is always silent while the other sings."

    Derived terms

    * hocketing * hockettor

    References

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    hocked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hock)

    • Anagrams

    *

    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

    .

    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