roc
[rok]
- a bird of enormous size and strength.
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Origin of roc
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Contemporary Examples
A Rochester (ROC) passenger approached a ticket counter to check in and stated to the ticket agent that he had a bomb in his bag.
Roc Nation did not respond to multiple requests to confirm that they had signed the rapper to their label.
Watch Jay-Z's "Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)..." music video.
Historical Examples
There we found a roc's egg, equal in size to the one I had seen before.
Favorite Fairy TalesLogan Marshall
Times like these, a lump like a roc's egg would rise in the boy's throat.
They answered, 'By a touch of the gall of the Roc on his forehead.'
The Shaving of Shagpat, CompleteGeorge Meredith
His 2d lady had no child; was poysoned by the hands of Co. of Roc.
Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2)John Aubrey
It signifies 'thirty birds' and is thought to be the roc of the Arabs.
The Fairy MythologyThomas Keightley
roc
- (in Arabian legend) a bird of enormous size and power
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Word Origin
C16: from Arabic rukhkh, from Persian rukh
ROC
- Royal Observer Corps
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Word Origin and History for roc
n.
large, ferocious bird of fable, 1570s, from Arabic rukhkh, from Persian rukh. Mentioned in Marco Polo's account of Madagascar, modern use is mostly from "Arabian Nights." Hence roc's egg "something marvelous or prodigious."
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