Crock

12 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crock \Crock\, n.
     1. a person who is worn out with age or illness.
        [PJC]
  
     2. an old person who complains frequently about illness,
        especially imaginary ailments.


        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  crock \crock\, n.
     nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a
     crock. [slang]
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crock \Crock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crocked} (kr[o^]kt); p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Crocking}.]
     To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter
     of badly dyed cloth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crock \Crock\, v. i.
     To give off crock or smut.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crock \Crock\, v. t.
     To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. --Halliwell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crock \Crock\ (kr[o^]k), n. [Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit
     covered.]
     The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on
     pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring
     matter which rubs off from cloth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crock \Crock\, n.
     A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock."
     --Tatler.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crock \Crock\ (kr[o^]k), n. [AS. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin
     to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel. krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka;
     but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen
     vessel, jar. Cf. {Cruet}.]
     Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an
     earthen pot or pitcher.
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           Like foolish flies about an honey crock. --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crock
       n 1: nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock"
       2: an earthen jar (made of baked clay) [syn: {earthenware jar}]
       v 1: release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
       2: soil with or as with crock

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "crock":
     adobe, balker, balky horse, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, cement,
     ceramic ware, ceramics, china, crockery, crowbait, dog, enamelware,
     firebrick, garron, glass, goat, hack, jade, jug, jughead, nag,
     plug, porcelain, pot, pottery, refractory, roarer, rogue,
     rosinante, scalawag, stiff, tile, tiling, urn, vase, whistler
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1. An awkward
     feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For
     example, using small integers to represent error codes without the
     program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix
     `make(1)', which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to
     {segfault}). 2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite
     prone to failure if disturbed in the least. For example, a too-clever
     programmer might write an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics
     to numeric opcodes algorithmically, a trick which depends far too
     intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another
     example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see
     {The Story of Mel} in Appendix A.) Many crocks have a tightly woven,
     almost completely unmodifiable structure. See {kluge}, {brittle}. The
     adjectives `crockish' and `crocky', and the nouns `crockishness' and
     `crockitude', are also used.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  crock
       
          [American scatologism "crock of shit"] 1. An awkward feature
          or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner.  For
          example, using small integers to represent error codes without
          the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example,
          Unix "make(1)", which returns code 139 for a process that dies
          due to {segfault}).
       
          2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone
          to failure if disturbed in the least.  For example, a
          too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped
          {instruction mnemonics} to numeric {opcode}s
          {algorithm}ically, a trick which depends far too intimately on
          the particular bit patterns of the opcodes.  (For another
          example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode
          values, see {The Story of Mel}.)  Many crocks have a tightly
          woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure.  See {kluge},
          {brittle}.  The adjectives "crockish" and "crocky", and the
          nouns "crockishness" and "crockitude", are also used.
       
          [{Jargon File}]