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das Bock

noun · [bɔk] ·
Etymology

From Middle High German boc, poc, from Old High German boc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk. Cognate to English buck, Bavarian Bock, Dutch bok, Norwegian bukk, Swedish bock, Danish buk.

Translation

  1. buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer masculine, strong

    Einen alten Bock gelüstet es wohl noch nach einem grünen Blatt.

    Old cows eat tender grass.

    Ich habe echt null Bock darauf!

    I don't feel like it anyway!

  2. a stubborn person masculine, strong
  3. a man who is lecherous or sexually active masculine, strong

    geil wie ein Bock

    horny as a buck

  4. a blunder, mistake informal, masculine, strong
  5. box (driver's seat of a horse-drawn coach) masculine, strong
  6. an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter. masculine, strong

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominative Bock Böcke
Accusative Bock Böcke
Dative Bock Böcken
Genitive Bockes Böcke

Bock

noun · [bɔk] ·
Etymology

From 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 (etymology 1 above). Compare a fuller form still in Bavarian Oambock, Ambock. Borrowed from Romani bokh (“hunger”); ultimately from Sanskrit बुभुक्षा (bubhukṣā). Reinforced and perhaps semantically influenced by Bock (etymology 1) in its sexual sense. First attested in the second half of the 20th century and originally belonging to the Rotwelsch cant. Distant doublet of Funktion.

Translation

  1. bock beer neuter, strong
  2. hunger masculine, strong
  3. buck source:freedict-eng-deu-dictd
  4. billy goat source:wikdict-en-de-stardict
  5. buck source:dictcc-tuchemnitz-de-en
  6. desire, interest colloquial, masculine, strong

    Ich will ins Kino gehen. Hast du Bock?

    I wanna go to the movies. Are you down for that?

    Ich kriege langsam Bock auf Tanzen.

    I’m starting to feel like dancing.

    Das macht Bock auf mehr.

    This makes you want more.

    Keiner hat mehr Bock auf Kiffen, Saufen, Feiern.

    Nobody feels like blazing, boozing, partying anymore.

    »Warum geht die Ziege nicht zum Tanzen? Weil sie keinen Bock hat!«

  7. fun, pleasure colloquial, masculine, strong

    Macht’s Bock?

    Is it fun?

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominative Bock Böcke
Accusative Bock Böcke
Dative Bock Böcken
Genitive Bock Böcke