paddock

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpædək/

Etymology 1

From Middle English paddok, equivalent to pad (“frog or toad”) +‎ -ock.

Alternative forms

• padock (obsolete)

Noun

paddock (plural paddocks)

1. (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.

Etymology 2

Alteration of Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosure, fence, paddock”), from Old English pearroc, pearruc (“enclosure, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *parr- (“stake, bar, beam, fence-post”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”) + Proto-Germanic *-ukaz, *-ikaz (See -ock). Cognate with Dutch perk (“flowerbed, garden, pen”), German Pferch (“sheepfold, sheep-pen”), Danish park (“pond”). Related to park, spar.

Noun

paddock (plural paddocks)

1. A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
   • 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 1

     […] the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.

2. (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
3. An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
4. Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
5. (motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.

Derived terms

• heifer paddock
• long paddock

Verb

paddock (third-person singular simple present paddocks, present participle paddocking, simple past and past participle paddocked)

1. To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.

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French

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Noun

paddock m (plural paddocks)

1. paddock
2. (slang) pad (bed)