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brock en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /bɹɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /bɹɑk/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.

Meanings

1. (UK) A male badger.
   • Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock, Send in a cur to worry the whole flock. 1756 [1704], Ben Jonson, “The Tale of a Tub”, in Peter Whalley, editor, The Works of Ben Jonson, page 108:
2. (archaic, obsolete, possibly) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
   • By sportsmen the stag is called, the first year, a calf or hind-calf ; the second year, a knobber ; the third, a brock ; the fourth, a staggard ; the fifth, a stag ; the sixth, a hart. 1833, “Stag”, in The Sportsman’s Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, page 417:
3. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

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Deriveds

brockish

brock en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /bɹɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /bɹɑk/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.

Meanings

1. To taunt.
   • Then other boys noticed that he had a softness for me, and brocked us both, so that I, who had been as unconscious as ever of anything erotic, suddenly learnt what was going on &, by some profound power of suggestion, what my feelings actually were. 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 112:

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