-ock

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 142 words | Copyright

-ock suffix forming dims.; in OE. -oc, -uc, as in BULLOCK, HASSOCK, MATTOCK. The number was extended in ME. and later, as in HILLOCK, PADDOCK.

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