Brocked vs Brooked - What's the difference?
brocked | brooked |
(brock)
, a variant of Brook, or originally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger ( Middle English broc(k) ).
transferred from the surname.
* 1949 , Mary Wakefield , Dundurn Press (2009), ISBN 1550028774, page 132:
(brook)
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 verbs the difference between brocked and brooked
is that brocked is (brock) while brooked is (brook).brocked
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*Brock
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock'." "General '''Brock'''?" she asked, mystified. "General Isaac ' Brock , you know. The Battle of Queenston Heights, where we defeated the Americans." Her puzzled expression showed that she had not heard of the occasion. Young Busby was shocked.
brooked
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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’.