slock
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Cognate with German Schluck (“a draught; a gulp”), Dutch slok (“a draught; a gulp”).
Noun edit
slock (plural slocks)
- (Scotland, Northern England) A draught; a gulp.
- A slock of wine.
- 1935, Howard Lindsay, She Loves Me Not: A Comedy in Two Acts: Dramatized from Edward Hope’s Novel, French’s standard library edition, New York, N.Y., Los Angeles, Calif.: Samuel French, Inc., →OCLC, act I, scene II.B, page 15:
- Nothing like a slock of cake on a chilly evening, is there?
Verb edit
slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)
- (Scotland, Northern England) To swallow, gulp.
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb edit
slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)
- (transitive, West Country, slang, obsolete) To poach (a servant) from another household.
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
slock (plural slocks)
- (US prison slang) An improvised weapon consisting of a padlock placed in a sock, common in prison environments.
Verb edit
slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)
Etymology 4 edit
Coined or popularized by Tim Wells, who is widely known among hunters for this style of hunting.
Verb edit
slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt (wild game) with preindustrial tools such as spears, blowguns, slingshots, arrows, crossbows, or others.
References edit
- “slock” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Jonathon Green (2024) “slock n.1.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- Jonathon Green (2024) “slock v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang