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Gaelic
(pron. Lee-shock) Gaelic name LUÃSEACH means "light-bringer."Â
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English
English : from Middle English schock, ‘shock’, ‘group of sheaves (of grain)’, either a metonymic occupational name for someone who arranged sheaves in a shock, or a descriptive nickname for someone whose hair stood up on end, thus resembling a shock of sheaves.Americanized spelling of German Schock.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin. Most probably a habitational name from Shocklach in Cheshire, named in Old English with sceocca ‘goblin’, ‘evil spirit’ + læcc ‘boggy stream’. In the 17th century, the name was most common in Buckinghamshire, England.Perhaps also an Americanized form of Swiss German Schoechli, a topographic name meaning ‘barn’, from a diminutive of Schoch.Richard Shockley (b. about 1634, probably in Buckinghamshire, England) arrived in MD in 1671.
Female
Irish
(pron. Lee-shock) Irish form of Old Gaelic LuÃseach, LUIGHSEACH means "torch-bringer." Used as an Irish form of Latin Lucia (English Lucy), meaning "light."Â
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v.
To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
v. t.
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
n.
A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
a.
Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
n.
See 7th Shock, 1.
n.
A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
n.
Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Shock
a.
Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
n.
A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
a.
Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
v. i.
To be occupied with making shocks.
v.
To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
a.
Shock-headed.
n.
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
v. i.
To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
n.
An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
imp. & p. p.
of Shock
n.
That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.
superl.
Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.