tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post7477980421646991302..comments2024-03-28T07:47:45.855+00:00Comments on Separated by a Common Language: crockslynneguisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10171345732985610861noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-91116860450638552242022-12-26T11:15:28.291+00:002022-12-26T11:15:28.291+00:00Wow! My attempt was to clean up my swear words. “ ...Wow! My attempt was to clean up my swear words. “ crock of bile”. My first sentence. Stop, spewing your cracked crock of bile in my direction”. The dilemma of speech comes in two parts. Speaking and listening. The latter is pain fully pitiful.<br />“Crock of bile” sounds like crocodile.<br />And yet. I will persevere. One word. One phrase, at a time.<br /><br />Don from Lumberton, Tx. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-41095903101898499272007-09-16T02:03:00.000+01:002007-09-16T02:03:00.000+01:00In the late 1970s or early 1980s the California-ba...In the late 1970s or early 1980s the California-based Crocker National Bank--it was named for 19th-century railroad magnate Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four the bank, and is most famous perhaps for using the Karen Carpenter song "We've Only Just Begun" in its TV advertising--had a very tall headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles. On the top floor was a restaurant actually named "Top of the Crock." Needless to say, many of us enjoyed a merry laugh. Crocker Bank was acquired by Wells Fargo in 1986.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-16395781102043864592007-09-14T23:54:00.000+01:002007-09-14T23:54:00.000+01:00The only ways I would every use the word crock wou...The only ways I would every use the word crock would be "crock of shit" and "crockpot." The latter is an electric cooking pot with a timer that you can leave unattended to slow cook food.<BR/><BR/>If I had seen "crock of gold" I would think it was being used euphemistically.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-12680567342817486742007-09-14T15:48:00.000+01:002007-09-14T15:48:00.000+01:00While on homonyms, how about Kroc (Ray Kroc)? Kroc...While on homonyms, how about Kroc (Ray Kroc)? Kroc as a name that started a restaurant that serves crock...? That is my word association, of course what with my work in obesity 8-)Shefaly Yogendrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12117508079407216918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-38508073811431840652007-09-14T10:58:00.000+01:002007-09-14T10:58:00.000+01:00I'm sorry. I got the impression from the excerpt ...I'm sorry. I got the impression from the excerpt of JHMs question in the original post, that he didn't really recognise crock as another name for a pot. Whereas, in my BrE mind it rarely means anything else.<BR/><BR/>The other meaning interested me, mainly because I wasn't aware of some of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-89783851759926406352007-09-13T22:20:00.000+01:002007-09-13T22:20:00.000+01:00Yes, there are lots of meanings of 'crock'--but as...Yes, there are lots of meanings of 'crock'--but as ever my focus was aiming to be on the ways that they differ in meaning and use dialectally. The basic meaning of an earthenware vessel (and relatedly, broken earthenware vessels) is common across the dialects. What's changed is the connotations and additional meanings associated with them.lynneguisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171345732985610861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-7336211737869359962007-09-13T21:51:00.000+01:002007-09-13T21:51:00.000+01:00In the rural Midwestern US a 70 years ago a crock ...In the rural Midwestern US a 70 years ago a crock was a useful and valued "an earthenware pot" almost always glazed an off white on the outside and often more earth toned one the inside. Very similar to this <A HREF="http://events.mnhs.org/media/images/events/2042/crock_300.jpg" REL="nofollow">crock</A> if my effort to create a link works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-67309620266197771812007-09-13T14:08:00.000+01:002007-09-13T14:08:00.000+01:00One day I will learn to wait until I have finished...One day I will learn to wait until I have finished researching before I post ...<BR/><BR/>Online Etymology Dictionary - <BR/><BR/>crock <BR/><BR/>O.E. crocc, crocca "pot," from P.Gmc. *krogu "pitcher, pot." Crockery is from 1719.<BR/><BR/>Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas HarperAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-82947897980546132662007-09-13T14:05:00.000+01:002007-09-13T14:05:00.000+01:00Ohh - and in thae fairy story I heard, it was "the...Ohh - and in thae fairy story I heard, it was "the goose that laid the Golden Egg"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-90291139529974896202007-09-13T14:03:00.000+01:002007-09-13T14:03:00.000+01:00Dictionary.com has the following definitions ...1....Dictionary.com has the following definitions ...<BR/><BR/>1. an earthenware pot, jar, or other container. <BR/>2. a fragment of earthenware; potsherd. <BR/> <BR/>1. a person or thing that is old, decrepit, or broken-down. <BR/>2. Slang. a person who complains about or insists on being treated for an imagined illness. <BR/>3. an old ewe. <BR/>4. an old worn-out horse. <BR/>–verb (used with object) <BR/>5. British Slang. to disable or injure. <BR/> <BR/>1. British Dialect. soot; smut. <BR/>2. excess surface dye from imperfectly dyed cloth. <BR/>–verb (used with object) <BR/>3. British Dialect. to soil with soot. <BR/>–verb (used without object) <BR/>4. (of cloth) to give off excess surface dye when rubbed. <BR/><BR/>1. a lie; exaggeration; nonsense: The entire story is just a crock. <BR/><BR/>As you can see, I grabbed definitions from a number of different meanings of the word. <BR/><BR/>The very first definition in this list (an earthenware pot) is the first thing that springs into my 50(ish) year old BrE brain when I hear the word Crock.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-63639484387102609462007-09-13T13:59:00.000+01:002007-09-13T13:59:00.000+01:00I also (UKE) use it as a piece of broken pottery t...I also (UKE) use it as a piece of broken pottery to go in the bottom of a plant pot. Ties in with Crock of gold, seems to me.<BR/><BR/>And also as in Old Crock = beat up old car.Rob Clackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15461714931300617149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-76226851564992862382007-09-13T13:18:00.000+01:002007-09-13T13:18:00.000+01:00I've also heard it in a garden center as short for...I've also heard it in a garden center as short for crockery, the shards of which you put in the bottom of a pot to stop the soil falling out the bottom and allow drainage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-85124499273540326382007-09-13T12:46:00.000+01:002007-09-13T12:46:00.000+01:00A lame attempt to defend (or clarify, in the polit...A lame attempt to defend (or clarify, in the political parlance) my use of 'modify,' I not that the idea behind my original question was that 'crock of gold' could only sound like irony without 'crock' being somehow modified to make it sound like a specific example of a container for which 'pot' was somehow inadequate.<BR/><BR/>I completely didn't think of 'croc' (as in 'the croc that laid the golden egg'). funny how a missing 'k' can blot out thoughts of an obvious homonym.jhmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024302748759726815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-81465605153156945412007-09-13T08:18:00.000+01:002007-09-13T08:18:00.000+01:00All over the world now, is this crock (which is = ...All over the world now, is this crock (which is = bollocks?)<BR/><BR/>What a load of bollocks/what a crock of s***.<BR/><BR/>Not heard the aussie use of crock. But in NZ we do get "crook" backs, knees, etc. A bad cold might have me feeling crook.flashgordonnzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17934275623938566914noreply@blogger.com