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maddock

/ˈmædək/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

Syllables
mad-dock
IPA
/ˈmædək/
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An earthworm or maggot.

Obsolete

name

A surname from Welsh.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English maddok, from an unrecorded Old English form corresponding to Old Norse maðkr (whence dialectal English mawk, Danish maddike, Swedish mask), originally a diminutive of the Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (whence Old English maþa), equivalent to made (“maggot”) + -ock.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

maddocks (plural) Mattuck (alternative)

Rhymes With

paddock braddock haddock craddock cradock madoc chaddock shaddock shadduck

Questions

How do you pronounce maddock?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmædək/.
What does maddock mean?
An earthworm or maggot.
Where does maddock come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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