docken

/ ˈdɒkən /

noun

1. another name for dock 4
2. something of no value or importance

   not worth a docken

Word History and Origins

Origin of docken¹

C14 doken, from Old English doccan, pl of docce dock ⁴

Example Sentences

The afterbirth was thrown out the window on the drive home, Ms. Docken was later told by her adoptive parents, who paid $500 for her that day.

From New York Times

Ms. Docken is one of about two dozen people, mostly in the West, belonging to a self-styled club whose members call themselves “Gertie’s Babies.”

From New York Times

Ms. Docken is also among the unsuccessful searchers.

From New York Times

In the fields, where the thorns were green as rivulets of melted snow and the grass had the bloom of emerald, and the leaves of docken, clover, cinquefoil, sorrel, and a thousand plants and flowers, were wave-green, the ewes lay, idly watching with their luminous amber eyes the frisking and leaping of the close-curled, tuft-tailed, woolly-legged lambs.

From Project Gutenberg

But he was nothing but a dour, donnert soldier, and valued good logic not a docken.

From Project Gutenberg