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bock beer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English

Syllables
bock- beer
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A strong, dark lager of German origin.

Etymology

From German Bockbier, from Bock + Bier (“beer”). The former component is a southern German alteration of Einbeck, a brewery town in Lower Saxony, where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix -beck (“-brook”) was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of Bock (“buck”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

bock beers (plural)

Synonyms

bock

Questions

What does bock beer mean?
A strong, dark lager of German origin.
Where does bock beer come from?
It is traced to German.

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