hocks
Meaning of hocks
- the joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backwards.
- a knuckle of meat, especially of pork or ham.
late Middle English: variant of hough.
verb, 3rd person present
deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.
mid 19th century (in the phrase in hock ): from Dutch hok ‘hutch, prison, debt’.
plural noun
a dry white wine from the German Rhineland.
abbreviation of obsolete hockamore, alteration of German Hochheimer (Wein) ‘(wine) from Hochheim’.
noun, 3rd person present
variant spelling of hawk3.
Information about hocks
- The singular form of hocks is: hock.
- Languages in which hocks is used:
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Hyphenation of hocks
hocks
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- hocks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of hocks
Words that rhyme with hocks
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