brock

American  

[brok] / brɒk /

noun

• brocks
  plural

1. a European badger.

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brock British  

/ brɒk /

noun

1. a Brit name, used esp as a form of address in stories, for badger

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• brocks
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of brock

before 1000; Middle English brok, Old English broc badger < Celtic; compare Irish, Scots Gaelic broc, Welsh broch

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Example Sentences

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brock brocks

We'll e'en mark him, and ca' him the Captain's brock; and I'm sure I'm glad I can do ony thing to oblige you,—but, Lord save us, to care about a brock!'

From Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott

The fox doth fight with the brock for dens, and defileth the brock's den, and hath so the mastery over him with fraud and deceit, and not by strength….

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

Take cover, and, when I whistle, on to him like a brock!'

From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease

The badger, or brock, as it is called in Scotland, is yearly becoming more and more rare.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White

Beg or little he was in the countryside's bye-name, but in truth he was a fellow of six feet, as hairy as a brock and in the same straight bristly fashion.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

The wolves, foxes, harts, wild boars, fallow deer, hares, coneys, weasels, brocks, badgers, and other such beasts, were found dead in the fields with their mouths open.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux

Then the moon came quiet and flooded full Light and beauty on clouds like wool, On a feasted fox at rest from hunting, In the beech wood grey where the brocks were grunting.

From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield

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