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Meanings of hock in English
Synonyms
Examples for "soak"
Examples for "soak"
1
We wake in the early morning and soak the floor with water.
2
Crush the toast in your hands, and soak it in the milk.
3
Let the shrimp soak for 30 minutes, then drain and coarsely chop.
4
The Gold Coast is a good option to soak up some sunshine.
5
Time for a long soak in the bath, then change for dinner.
1
He also took issue with Derek being used as a political pawn.
2
In addition, a pawn transaction takes a matter of minutes, he noted.
3
Don't try to pawn us off on the New England Patriots, either.
4
Passing a line of broken prams, great for transport to the pawn.
5
Hence, the solution can never be the 'pawn' known as estimated bill.
Spanish
corvejón Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
Usage of hock in English
1
John had gone to get more wine, a home-made hock this time.
2
A very large tendon is attached to the summit of the hock.
3
I was getting some of that hock her ladyship brought from London.
4
These are placed above the hock and retained by straps tightly fastened.
5
Seaman took a long and ecstatic draught of his hock and seltzer.
6
Discard the ham hock and rosemary, remove the vegetables and blend them.
7
We are about as much alike as sage tea and sparkling hock.
8
Yvonne Lorkin has a selection of wines to compliment the pork hock.
9
A salad, some sandwiches, a bottle of hock and plenty of strawberries.
10
Finally he succeeded, just as Mike had got Fidelity by the hock.
11
The edge is ragged, the skin abraded, but the hock is off.
12
I wonder if I shall know a horse's hock from his withers?
13
The devil had me in hock to his arse as it was.
14
The gas stations were in hock and he needed the money, said Karr.
15
Either way, Macron risks appearing in hock to the establishment that voters rejected.
16
The heel of the horse is the part commonly known as the hock.
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Hock through the time
Hock across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common