Bock

Bock (plural Bocks)

1. A surname.
2. A city in Minnesota.

• IPA^(key): /b̥ok/
• Hyphenation: Bock

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.

Bock m (plural Böck or Bock)

1. buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
2. shoe

   Synonym: Schuach

3. (gymnastics) an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.

• Goaßbock, Gaaßbock m (“billy goat”)
• Stoabock, Staabock m (“ibex”)
• böckln

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.

Bock n

1. bock beer

• IPA^(key): [bɔk]

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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]

Bock m (strong, genitive Bockes or Bocks, plural Böcke, diminutive Böckchen n or Böcklein n)

1. buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer

   Hyponyms: Ziegenbock / Geißbock, Schafbock, Rehbock

2. (also sturer Bock) a stubborn person

   Synonyms: Sturbock, Sturkopf

3. (also geiler Bock) a man who is lecherous or sexually active

   geil wie ein Bock ― horny as a buck

4. (informal) a blunder, mistake
5. (vehicles) a seat for a coachman
6. (gymnastics) an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.

• Steinbock m (“ibex”)
• Sündenbock m (“scapegoat”)

• Masurian: bok (“buck”)

• Geiß f
• Ziege f

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.

Bock n (strong, genitive Bocks, plural Bock)

1. bock beer

• Bockbier
• Maibock

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]

Bock m (strong, genitive Bock, plural Böcke)

1. (Rotwelsch) hunger
2. (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, Litblockin-Verlag:

     »Warum geht die Ziege nicht zum Tanzen? Weil sie keinen Bock hat!«

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   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.

3. (colloquial) fun, pleasure; construed with machen without auf

   Synonym: Spaß

   Macht’s Bock? ― Is it fun?

• The plural is rare but is sometimes used in a jocularly fashion with no change in meaning: Hast du Böcke?

• “Bock” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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.

• IPA^(key): /bok/

Bock m (plural Béck)

1. buck
2. trestle, support
3. box (driver's seat on a coach)