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Cocked vs Tocked - What's the difference?

cocked | tocked |

As verbs the difference between cocked and tocked

is that cocked is past tense of cock while tocked is past tense of tock.

As an adjective cocked

is drunk.

cocked

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (informal) drunk
    • He is totally cocked right now, about thirteen beers into his 12-pack.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cock)

    • tocked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tock)

    • tock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (used in conjunction with tick) A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.

    • Derived terms

    * tick-tock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce such a sound.
  • * Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann
    • The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.
  • * 1967 , William Gray Purcell, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin
    • The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.