Meaning

3 senses
  1. (UK)A male badger.

  2. (archaic, obsolete, possibly)A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.

  3. (obsolete)A dirty, stinking fellow.

Origin

From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badge

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.

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Forms

plural: brocks
Singularbrock
Pluralbrocks

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbrockish

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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