🙄 Nonsense 🍶 A clay pot ⚫ Black powder 🩸 To lose color

to crock

1 9.9

To lose color and stain other things when rubbed

verb
/krɒk/

Specialized

: destiñir

After washing the shirt, I noticed it had started to crock and leave color on the other clothes.

Examples

I've had some bad luck with lamb suede crocking on me.
The poor quality of the dye caused the fabric to crock during the first wash.
If you don't set the dye properly, your jeans will crock and stain your skin.

Idioms

to call it a crock

Informal

9.5

To say that an idea is nonsense or not true

Compounds

Crock Pot

12 3.5

An electric pot that cooks food slowly at low heat

crock-pot

5 3.2

An electric pot that cooks food slowly for several hours

crock-pot

1 3.4

A dish cooked slowly in a slow cooker

old crock

1 9.2

A worn-out thing like a car or bike that is not worth much

How Colorfast

colorfast

1 4.4

to crock

Specialized

1 9.9

to bleed

29 5.8

Surface Forms

crock infinitive

crocked past

crocked past participle

crocking present participle

crocks third person singular

Etymology

Crock as a verb, meaning to let colour rub off, comes from a special cloth-making use where rubbing causes dye to come out of the fabric, and a helpful image is colour 'rubbing' off like dust from a pot. That's why if a shirt will crock, it will lose dye and may stain other clothes.