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Synonyms for hock

Most common

soak pawn hamstring hockle

All synonyms

Verb

1. Pawn

pawn, soak

Other

hamstring, hockle, hox dated, hork slang

Noun

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

  2. n. 1

    A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.

Related words

Phrases
ham hock in hock soon hock
Is a kind of
disable

Forms

Plural
hocks → legs, knees…
Past participle
hocked
e.g. hocked → pawned, soaked, hamstringed, hockled…

Example sentences

  • soak You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water.
  • pawn Yanni and Skura were using their child as a pawn.
  • hamstring You should feel the stretch in your hamstring.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
hocksteady
soakrising
pawnrising
hamstringrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
leg1, hox
4 letters
knee1, soak1, pawn1, hork
6 letters
hockle
9 letters
hamstring2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hamstring2 = 2 syllables).