/bɹɒk/, /bɹɑk/
OriginFrom 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.
- An English and Scottish surname from Middle English, a variant of Brook, or originally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger (Middle English broc(k)).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
“"I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock." "General Brock?" she asked, mystified. "General Isaac Brock, you know. The Battle of Quee”
- A small village in Myerscough and Bilsborrow parish, Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5140).
- A river in Lancashire which flows through the village to the River Wyre.
- An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri, United States.
- A village in Nemaha County, Nebraska, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Darke County, Ohio, United States.
- A town in Parker County, Texas, United States.
- A township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
- A village in the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A rural municipality (Rural Municipality of Brock No. 64) in Saskatchewan.
- A river in Quebec, Canada, a tributary of the Chibougamau River.
- UKA male badger.
“Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock,
Send in a cur to worry the whole flock.”
- archaic, obsolete, possiblyA 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.”
- obsoleteA dirty, stinking fellow.
- 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 pow”
Formsbrocks(plural) · brocks(present, singular, third-person) · brocking(participle, present) · brocked(participle, past) · brocked(past)