brock
English
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.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒk
Noun
brock (plural brocks)
- (UK) a male badger.
- Ben Jonson
- With pretence of chasing thence the brock
- Ben Jonson
- A brocket.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bailey to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.
Verb
brock (third-person singular simple present brocks, present participle brocking, simple past and past participle brocked)
- To taunt.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, p.112)
- 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, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, p.112)
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