Bock
English edit
Proper noun edit
Bock (plural Bocks)
Bavarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German boc, poc, from Old High German boc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk. Cognate to English buck, German Bock, Dutch bok, Norwegian bukk, Swedish bock, Danish buk.
Noun edit
Bock m (plural Böck or Bock)
- buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
- shoe
- Synonym: Schuach
- (gymnastics) an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From a southern German alteration of Einbeck, a brewery town in Lower Saxony, where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix -beck (“-brook”) was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of Bock (etymology 1 above). Compare a fuller form still in Oambock, Ambock.
Noun edit
Bock n
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German boc, poc, from Old High German boc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk. Cognate to English buck, Bavarian Bock, Dutch bok, Norwegian bukk, Swedish bock, Danish buk.[1]
Noun edit
Bock m (strong, genitive Bockes or Bocks, plural Böcke, diminutive Böckchen n or Böcklein n)
- buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
- Hyponyms: Ziegenbock / Geißbock, Schafbock, Rehbock
- (also sturer Bock) a stubborn person
- (also geiler Bock) a man who is lecherous or sexually active
- geil wie ein Bock ― horny as a buck
- (informal) a blunder, mistake
- (vehicles) a seat for a coachman
- (gymnastics) an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- Steinbock m (“ibex”)
- Sündenbock m (“scapegoat”)
See also edit
Descendants edit
- Masurian: bok (“buck”)
Etymology 2 edit
From a southern German alteration of Einbeck, a brewery town in Lower Saxony, where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix -beck (“-brook”) was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of Bock (etymology 1 above). Compare a fuller form still in Bavarian Oambock, Ambock.
Noun edit
Bock n (strong, genitive Bocks, plural Bock)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Since the second half of the 20th century and originally belonging to the Rotwelsch cant. Borrowed from Romani bokh (“hunger”), from Sanskrit बुभुक्षा (bubhukṣā). Reinforced and perhaps semantically influenced by Bock (etymology 1) in its sexual sense.[1]
Noun edit
Bock m (strong, genitive Bock, plural Böcke)
- (Rotwelsch) hunger
- (colloquial) desire, interest to do something; construed with haben, kriegen, or machen + auf
- Synonym: Lust
- 2013, Marteria, "Kids (2 Finger an den Kopf)".
- Keiner hat mehr Bock auf Kiffen, Saufen, Feiern.
- Nobody feels like blazing, boozing, partying anymore.
- 1992, Erwin Leibfried, Die Forderung des Tages: ziemlich unsortierte Notizen zum Entwurf einer Denkschrift über angewandte Geisteswissenschaften[1], Litblockin-Verlag:
- »Warum geht die Ziege nicht zum Tanzen? Weil sie keinen Bock hat!«
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Hast du Bock? ― Do you feel like it?
- Ich kriege langsam Bock auf Tanzen. ― I’m starting to feel like dancing.
- Das macht Bock auf mehr. ― This makes you want more.
- (colloquial) fun, pleasure; construed with machen without auf
- Synonym: Spaß
- Macht’s Bock? ― Is it fun?
Usage notes edit
- The plural is rare but is sometimes used in a jocularly fashion with no change in meaning: Hast du Böcke?
Declension edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Bock”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “Bock” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Luxembourgish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German buc, from Old High German buc, alternative form of boc (which would have yielded Luxembourgish *Back), from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Bock m (plural Béck)