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-ock

  1. a native English suffix of nouns, used to form descriptive names ( ruddock, lit., the red one) and diminutives ( hillock ).


-ock

suffix forming nouns

  1. indicating smallness

    hillock

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ock1

Middle English -ok, Old English -oc, -uc
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ock1

Old English -oc, -uc
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Example Sentences

Residents have also been evacuated after the River Ock burst its banks.

From BBC

There was no official count on Green Goblin or Doc Ock sightings in the area.

From Slate

He fails, of course, but some good comes of it: As Peter, Doc Ock returns to Empire State University and gets his doctorate.

But my favorite bargain finds are my Doc Ock monitor arms — the Dell MSA14, which office liquidators used to sell as low as $50 on Craigslist or eBay.

And then later in the film, when the chip gets fixed and Doc Ock is in charge again, they’re white, which is a nod to the original Spider-Man 2 when Otto first puts the arms on.

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