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) box (driver's seat of a horse-drawn coach)
6. (gymnastics) an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.

• 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

Borrowed from Romani bokh (“hunger”); ultimately from Sanskrit बुभुक्षा (bubhukṣā). Reinforced and perhaps semantically influenced by Bock (etymology 1) in its sexual sense.^[1] First attested in the second half of the 20th century and originally belonging to the Rotwelsch cant. Distant doublet of Funktion.

Bock m (strong, genitive Bock, plural Böcke)

1. (Rotwelsch) hunger
2. (colloquial, with haben, kriegen, or machen) desire, interest [with auf (+ accusative) ‘for something’]

   Synonym: Lust

   Ich will ins Kino gehen. Hast du Bock? ― I wanna go to the movies. Are you down for that?

   Ich kriege langsam Bock auf Tanzen. ― I’m starting to feel like dancing.

   Das macht Bock auf mehr. ― This makes you want more.

   • 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!«

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4. (colloquial, with machen) fun, pleasure

   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?

• bocken

• “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)