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A vessel so honest it lent its name to every steaming pile of nonsense.
means A crock is an earthenware pot or jar, though in everyday speech it more often means something worthless or untrue — as in 'a crock of nonsense.'
from From Old English 'crocc' or 'crocca,' meaning an earthen pot — a homely word with cousins across the Germanic languages (Old Norse 'krukka,' Dutch 'kruik,' German 'Krug'). For most of its life it simply meant a clay vessel. The dismissive sense — something useless, then something false — grew later, partly from the image of a battered old pot fit only for scrap, and partly as a polite trimming of a coarser phrase about what such a crock might be full of.
- slow cooker
- The Crock-Pot trademarked the name in 1971
- old insult
- Once meant a worn-out horse or broken person
- crock of
- Short for a far less polite phrase
- earthenware roots
- Fired clay pots predate writing itself
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