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Vinony

shock

verb

  1. surprise, astonished
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noun

  1. medical emergency characterized by decreased tissue perfusion and impaired cellular metabolism resulting from failure of circulatory system
  2. surprise, astonishment
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʃɒk/ / /ʃɔk/ / /ʃɑk/

adj

Etymology: From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake. Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.

  1. Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.

    “His shock announcement rocked the tennis world.”

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Shuck. * As a German surname, Americanized from Schock, itself a variant of Scheck, or from the sense Schock (“heap”). Compare Schoch.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Variant of shag.

  1. An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.

    “Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.”

    “Behind the Master walks, builds up the Shocks.”

  2. A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
  3. A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.

    “His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.”

    “Every now and then I’m startled at how good-looking John is, but he glared at me from under the shock of hair that fell across his brow and scared me a little.”

  4. A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

    “When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)”

verb

Etymology: Variant of shag.

  1. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

    “to shock rye”