rocken

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See also: Rocken and Röcken

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English rochen, equivalent to rocke, roche + -en.

Adjective

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rocken (comparative more rocken, superlative most rocken)

  1. (now archaic) Consisting or made of rock or rocky material.
    • c. 1870, William Barnes, “The Girt Wold House o' Mossy Stwone”, in Poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect:
      [] Don't talk ov housen all o' brick, / Wi' rocken walls nine inches thick, []

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German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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rocken (weak, third-person singular present rockt, past tense rockte, past participle gerockt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to get done, to accomplish
    Synonym: fertigbekommen

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • rocken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • "rocken" in Redensarten-Index
  • rocken” in OpenThesaurus.de

Mòcheno

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Etymology

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From Middle High German rocke, from Old High German rocko, from Proto-West Germanic *roggō, from Proto-Germanic *ruggô (rye). Cognate with archaic German Rocken.

Noun

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rocken m

  1. rye

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Swedish

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Noun

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rocken

  1. definite singular of rock