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bocken

German, verb

bocken is spelled B-O-C-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 148,565th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bocken is a German verb meaning “to buck, to capriole, to be stubborn, to be unruly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Böcken is a different word: “dative plural of Bock”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Rücken runden, mit den Beinen den Boden verlassen und nach hinten treten, nicht folgsam sein”.

What does bocken mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to buck, to capriole, to be stubborn, to be unruly

  2. 2

    to be in season / in heat

  3. 3

    to play up, to act up (of children)

  4. 4

    vulgarto have it away, to have it off, to copulate

verb

  1. 1

    slangto be fun, enjoyable

    Fernsehen bockt nicht so, lass lieber ins Kino gehen.

noun

as Böcken
  1. 1

    masculinedative plural of Bock

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. den Rücken runden, mit den Beinen den Boden verlassen und nach hinten treten, nicht folgsam sein 2. nicht funktionieren oder nur eingeschränkt funktionieren 3. sich widerspenstig geben 4. Spaß machen, Lust darauf machen

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of bocken

  • bockt present singular third-person
  • bockte past
  • gebockt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • bockend participle present
  • bocke first-person indicative present
  • bockst indicative present second-person
  • bockest second-person singular subjunctive
  • bocket plural second-person subjunctive
  • bockten first-person indicative plural
  • bocktest indicative preterite second-person
  • bocktet indicative plural preterite
  • bock imperative second-person singular
  • habe gebockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben gebockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • bock! imperative singular
  • bocke! imperative singular
  • bockt! imperative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is bocken in German?

bocken appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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