English
in hock
In hock comes from Dutch hok ‘hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse’.
- Dutchc. 1500–presenthok‘hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse’
- Englishearliest quotation 2022in hock
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presenthok‘hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse’
- Englishearliest quotation 2022in hock
Earliest quotation: 2022, Ezra Klein, Your Kids Are Not Doomed: “The wind doesn’t stop blowing because an autocrat has…”
Linked words
through Dutch hok ‘hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse’
Today it means
prep_phrase Having been pawned.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch hok / in hock