bock
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bock (gymnastics equipment)
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːk/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːk
- Homophones: balk, bok
Noun
bock (countable and uncountable, plural bocks)
- A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
- Synonym: bock beer
French
Pronunciation
Noun
bock m (plural bocks)
- a beer glass having the capacity of approximately a quarter of a litre
- the content of such a beer glass
Related terms
Further reading
- “bock”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish boc, poc, pocc (“he-goat”) (compare Irish boc).
Noun
bock m (genitive singular bock, plural buick)
Derived terms
- bock goayr (“billygoat”)
Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| bock | vock | mock |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “poc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish bukker, bokker, from Old Norse bokkr, bukkr, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz‚ from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵno-, *bʰukkos, *bʰugkó-.
Noun
bock c
- a buck; the male of goat and deer
- the tick mark (✓), often marking something as incorrect in Sweden, but otherwise normally used to mark something as correct
- Antonym: (about "correct" vs. "incorrect") kryss
- a sawhorse
- a mount for a (roller) bearing
- a bend or fold of sheet metal
- a tool to bend or fold sheet metal
- leapfrog is called hoppa bock
- a gymnastics tool for leapfrogging
Declension
| Declension of bock | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | bock | bocken | bockar | bockarna |
| Genitive | bocks | bockens | bockars | bockarnas |