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

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brock brocks

In Yorkshire I often hear a man say, "Ah sweats like a brock," and the user of this elegant metaphor innocently imagines he is perspiring like a badger.

From The Badger A Monograph by Pease, Alfred E.

But his legitimate work is directed against the badger, in locating the brock under ground, worrying and driving him into his innermost earth, and there holding him until dug out.

From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert

London Bridge is broken down; Green is the grass on Ludgate Hill; I know a farmer in Camden Town Killed a brock by Pentonville.

From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

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

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

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