Etymograph

English

shockable

From shock + -able.

Formed from shock + -able

Proto-Germanic *skukkaną ‘to move, shake, tremble’

Old Dutch *skokkan ‘to shake up and down’

Middle Dutch schokken ‘to push, jolt, shake’

English shock

Today it means

adj Able to be shocked.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “shockable”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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