Bock.
buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
Meaning & usage
buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
a stubborn person
a man who is lecherous or sexually active
geil wie ein Bock
a blunder, mistake
box (driver's seat of a horse-drawn coach)
an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- Proto-Germanic *bukkaz Proto-West Germanic *bukk Old High German bok Middle High German bok German Bock From Middle High German bok, from Old High German bok, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk. Cognate with Bavarian Bock, Danish buk, Dutch bok, English buck, Norwegian bukk, and Swedish bock.
hunger
desire, interest
Ich will ins Kino gehen. Hast du Bock?
Ich kriege langsam Bock auf Tanzen.
fun, pleasure
Macht’s Bock?
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Romani bokh (“hunger”); ultimately from Sanskrit बुभुक्षा (bubhukṣā). Reinforced and perhaps semantically influenced by Bock (etymology 1) in its sexual sense. First attested in the second half of the 20th century and originally belonging to the Rotwelsch cant. Distant doublet of Funktion.
bock beer
Where this word comes from
From a southern German alteration of Einbeck, a brewery town in Lower Saxony, where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix -beck (“-brook”) was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of Bock (etymology 1 above). Compare a fuller form still in Bavarian Oambock, Ambock.
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