paddock

See also: Paddock

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpædək/

Etymology 1

From Middle English paddok, equivalent to pad (“frog or toad”) +‎ -ock.

Alternative forms

  • padock (obsolete)

Noun

paddock (plural paddocks)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) A frog or toad.
    • Wycliffe
      Soothly if thou wilt not deliver, lo! I shall smite all thy terms with paddocks. (Exodus 8:2)
    • Spenser
      The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
    • Shakespeare
      Paddock calls anon. (Macbeth 1.1.10)
Derived terms
  • paddock pipe
  • paddock stone
  • paddock stool

Etymology 2

Alteration of Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosure, fence, paddock”), from Old English pearroc, pearruc (“enclosure, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“flowerbed, garden, pen”), German Pferch (“sheepfold, sheep-pen”), Danish park (“pond”). Related to park, spar.

Noun

paddock (plural paddocks)

  1. A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
  3. An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
  4. Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
  5. (motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

paddock (third-person singular simple present paddocks, present participle paddocking, simple past and past participle paddocked)

  1. To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.

French

Noun

paddock m (plural paddocks)

  1. paddock
  2. (slang) pad (bed)

Further reading

Spanish

Noun

paddock m (plural paddocks)

  1. (motor racing) paddock
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