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prettygoodwordlohock (LO-hock) - n., a medicine to be administered by being licked, an electuary.
That last definition may not be very helpful, since it's not exactly common itself, but it is the less rare term, meaning "a paste taken orally, containing a drug mixed with syrup or honey," dating back to the middle ages and ultimately derived from the Greek root for "to lick". Lohock's origin is more obscure -- it seems to be an Americanism, as one of its first appearances in print is in Webster's 1828 dictionary, and specifically a New Englandism. My speculation is that it's an alteration of "licked up."
---L.
That last definition may not be very helpful, since it's not exactly common itself, but it is the less rare term, meaning "a paste taken orally, containing a drug mixed with syrup or honey," dating back to the middle ages and ultimately derived from the Greek root for "to lick". Lohock's origin is more obscure -- it seems to be an Americanism, as one of its first appearances in print is in Webster's 1828 dictionary, and specifically a New Englandism. My speculation is that it's an alteration of "licked up."
---L.
