hock
Pronunciations
hock | (HOCK) | listen |
Definitions
v. "To bother incessantly; annoy." (Weiser)
Example Sentences
"Don't hock me a tchainik."
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
האַקן hakn 'to chop; mince; beat' (verbal stem is האַק hak); esp. from phrase האַקן אַ טשײַניק hakn a tshaynik 'lit. beating a teapot; annoy' (האַק מיר נישט קײן טשײַניק hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik 'don't bug me'
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- North America
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
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Alternative Spellings
hak, huk, huck, hok
Notes
See also: hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik.
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