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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹʊk/
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  • Rhymes: -ʊk

Etymology 1

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From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”).

Verb

brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
  3. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
    I will not brook any disobedience.   I will brook no refusal.   I will brook no impertinence.
    • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎[3]:
      The faith in destiny and moral certainty claimed by would-be liberators brooks no resistance, and to register objections to their devotion is to be seen as the enemy of rightness.
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
    • 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing →ISBN, page 104
      After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
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tolerate — see tolerate

Etymology 2

From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-Germanic *brōkaz (“stream”).

Noun

brook (plural brooks)

  1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
    • Bible, Deuteronomy viii. 7
      The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
      But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, […].
  2. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
  3. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
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References

  1. ^ John Walker (1824) A critical pronouncing dictionary‎[1], page 77

Anagrams

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English brūcan (“to use, enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną. See also brouk.

Verb

tae brook

  1. To enjoy the use or owndom of.
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