Bach vs Brook - What's the difference?
bach | brook |
(New Zealand, northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.
(US) To live apart from women, as with the period when a divorce is in progress (compare bachelor pad).
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
*
*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
As nouns the difference between bach and brook
is that bach is a holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction while brook is a body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.As verbs the difference between bach and brook
is that bach is to live apart from women, as with the period when a divorce is in progress (compare bachelor pad) while brook is to use; enjoy; have the full employment of.As proper nouns the difference between bach and brook
is that bach is {{surname|from=German}} of English-speakers while Brook is {{surname|from=Middle English}} for someone living by a brook.bach
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* crib (New Zealand)Verb
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* ----brook
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.