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Hoiked vs Hocked - What's the difference?

hoiked | hocked |

As verbs the difference between hoiked and hocked

is that hoiked is past tense of hoik while hocked is past tense of hock.

hoiked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hoik)

    • hoik

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cricket) a wild hook shot played without style
  • (NZ) spittle.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play such a shot.
  • To lift something up wildly.
  • To throw something out.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=“What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”}}
  • (NZ) to spit.

    • 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