Well attestedNamed for a product of the place
hockamore
noun · first attested 17th century
English chewed a German town down to one syllable and got hock.
An obsolete English name for Rhenish white wine.
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- Relationship
- Named for a product of the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 17th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Hochheim am Main
- In English
hockamore
Hochheimer, the wine of Hochheim on the Main, entered English in the seventeenth century as hockamore; Samuel Butler put it in Hudibras. The long form fell away and left hock, which British drinkers applied first to Rheingau wine and then to German white wine in general. Hochheim is a small town at the eastern edge of the Rheingau, on the Main rather than the Rhine.
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