16:40 Feb 22, 2010 

I let myself be fooled into buying an upgrade for my van dale but... it's got the word 'hocker' (=ottoman) in it!

01:46 Feb 20, 2010 

is entirely new to me...

16:04 Feb 19, 2010 

I agree totally with Ron and Chris. I am bilingual but would not assume everybody knows what a hocker is for the simple reason that this piece of furniture is nearly always referred to in shops and magazines in the Netherlands by the English word: 'footstool'. Moreover, if the word is not in the standard dictionary I would also classify this question as PRO.
Besides the online Van Dale dictionary comes up with the following search result:

hocker De betekenis van dit woord is te vinden in Van Dale Online professioneel.

15:49 Feb 19, 2010 

I'm with Ron on both counts. After 20 years of contact with the Dutch language and 14 years in the Netherlands, this is my first encounter with 'hocker'! No dictionary I have lists it. I asked a work colleague, and she knew it because she recently bought a sofa. Apparently its a 'poef met poten'! Looks like a Flemish text, so maybe it's a perfectly normal word in Flanders. Would be good if a Fleming could comment...

15:40 Feb 19, 2010 

I most definitely know what "hocker" is, in Dutch... if you are looking into buying beds these days, "hockers" are everywhere....

13:48 Feb 19, 2010 

For anyone who is wondering about the difference between PRO and non-PRO on this site:

KudoZ - deciding whether a question is PRO or non-PRO

Sometimes people who are not translators use the KudoZ service to ask how to translate simple expressions, such as "I love you". While some ProZ.com members don't mind answering questions like these, others find them a source of annoyance. In order to meet the needs of both types of member, the category of "non-PRO" questions was created.
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PRO questions are those that are suitable for professional translators.
Non-PRO questions are those that can be answered by any bilingual person without the aid of a dictionary.
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If there is any doubt as to whether a question should be classified as PRO or non-PRO, it is generally suggested that the question be classified as PRO.

http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/95/1/KudoZ...

13:47 Feb 19, 2010 

I've been Dutch for all of my life and I've never heard of anything called a "hocker". Nor do I think many other Dutch people would know this word, let alone be able to produce an English translation from the top of their head, no matter how "bilingual" they are.

(Apparently the word is not even in the dictionaries.)

"No bilingual person would need a dictionary"? Come on...