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

Etymology

Origin of brock

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

brock brocks

Sir Toby's whole indignation against Malvolio culminates in the words:—'Marry, hang thee, brock!'

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob

Jim: I’ll not be taken here, Like a brock in his earth: I’ll not be trapped and torn ...

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

The Warden accordingly despatched a messenger to Christie’s Will, with the laconic and emphatic demand—“Let the brock out o’ the pock”—a return of Will’s own humorous message, which he well understood.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

To one who knows how to do it, drawing by the tail is a simple, quiet, and effective way of "taking the brock."

From The Badger A Monograph by Pease, Alfred E.

Sometimes the brock took an airing abroad, and the wolf came to look after his interests and see what he could snatch.

From The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

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 Masefield, John

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 Motteux, Peter Anthony