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Meaning of "hallock"

Here is the sentence where I saw the word "hallock"..:

"Last night three hallocks became strawberry shortcake and was quickly devoured
by three teen boys in the house."
I GOOGLED a bit and came up with nothing.
Lee Carkenord
  

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"[/nq] "Teen boys" hints that this is by an American hand. "Three . .

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  • "[/nq] "Teen boys" hints that this is by an American hand.
  • "Three .
  • .
  • was" confirms it is by an illiterate.
  • Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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[nq:1]"Last night three hallocks became strawberry shortcake and was quickly devoured by three teen boys in the house."[/nq]
"Teen boys" hints that this is by an American
hand. "Three . . . was" confirms it is by an
illiterate.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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[nq:1]Here is the sentence where I saw the word "hallock"..: "Last night three hallocks became strawberry shortcake and was quickly[/nq]
I think it should be "and were" or "which was".
[nq:1]devoured by three teen boys in the house." I GOOGLED a bit and came up with nothing. Lee Carkenord[/nq]
Dunno.
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[nq:1]Here is the sentence where I saw the word "hallock"..: "Last night three hallocks became strawberry shortcake and was quickly devoured by three teen boys in the house." I GOOGLED a bit and came up with nothing.[/nq]
Then you should google a bit more:
http://groups.google.co.uk/gr
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[nq:2]Here is the sentence where I saw the word "hallock"..: ... house." I GOOGLED a bit and came up with nothing.[/nq]
[nq:1]Then you should google a bit more:(snip URLs)[/nq]
How many hallocks would you get in a trug?

Phil C.
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[nq:2]Then you should google a bit more:[/nq]
[nq:1](snip URLs) How many hallocks would you get in a trug?[/nq]
Oddly, NSOED says "hallock" is a Scottish word for a silly person, especially a flighty young woman . . .
In the Google references, it seems to be an AmE (dialectal?) word for what we in the UK call a "punnet" - a container (often a sort of mini-basket made of interwoven thin
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[nq:2]"Last night three hallocks became strawberry shortcake and was quickly devoured by three teen boys in the house."[/nq]
[nq:1]"Teen boys" hints that this is by an American hand. "Three . . . was" confirms it is by an illiterate.[/nq]
I thought we had long since stopped making such comments, when it is clear that the antecedent is separated from the verb by a clause (or even by a phras
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[nq:2]Then you should google a bit more:[/nq]
[nq:1](snip URLs) How many hallocks would you get in a trug?[/nq]
In the large economy size trug, 48.
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