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"text": "1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181,\nTherefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his leaſings vain; / Like fooliſh Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain."
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"text": "old crocks’ home ― home for the aged",
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"ref": "1925, John Buchan, John Macnab, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0300621",
"text": "He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance. […] “Not so bad that, for a crock,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.",
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"ref": "1932, Helen Simpson, Boomerang, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0800611",
"text": "He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can′t ask a girl to marry a crock.”",
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"ref": "2006, The Moving Finger, part one (Miss Marple, 15 min, 20 year old bicycling tomboy to injured walker)",
"text": "Girl: \"Will you always be a bit of a crock?\"\nMan: \"According to my doctor, no.\"\nGirl: \"I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life.\""
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"text": "old crocks race ― veteran car rally",
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"word": "old car"
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"text": "That's a bunch of crock.",
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"text": "1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (Richard Steele), The Tatler, 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Tatler, 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,\nI then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand."
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"text": "1959, Kenneth Hammond, Fred Kern, Teaching Comprehensive Medical Care, →OCLC, pages A: Well, yes. Nobody likes crocks. Q: Why not? A: They're a nuisance. There is nothing ever wrong with them and they are even so peculiar they never have diseases other people do.:",
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"ref": "1976, Stephen Charles Frankel, Emergency Medical Care in an Urban Area, page 118",
"text": "Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"code": "el",
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"masculine"
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"ref": "2007 January 3, Daily Mirror",
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"ref": "1917, John H. Pfingsten, \"Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same\" http://www.google.com/patents?id=G3xVAAAAEBAJ, US Patent 1371572, page 1",
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