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porlock

porlock verb: to interrupt a person so as to prevent them from completing something important.

Verb

porlock (third-person singular simple present porlocks, present participle porlocking, simple past and past participle porlocked)

  1. To interrupt a person so as to prevent them from completing something important.

Proper noun capitalized: Porlock

Porlock

  1. A coastal village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS8846).

Forms of porlock

third-person singular presentporlocks
present participleporlocking
past participleporlocked
pastporlocked

Origin of porlock

See person from Porlock.

From Old English Portloc, from port + loca, literally “harbour enclosure”.

Words formed from porlock

Phrases with porlock

Questions about porlock

What does porlock mean?
Porlock means to interrupt a person so as to prevent them from completing something important.
What part of speech is porlock?
Porlock can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of porlock?
The past tense of porlock is porlocked.

Words near porlock in the dictionary

  1. porky pie
  2. porky pies
  3. porkypine
  4. porkypines
  5. Porlamar
  6. porlock
  7. Porlock Weir
  8. porlocked
  9. Porlockian
  10. porlocking
  11. porlocks

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