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brook | bike |

As a proper noun brook

is for someone living by a brook .

As a noun bike is

a short form of bicycle or bike can be (scotland|northern england) a nest of wasps or hornets.

As a verb bike is

to ride a bike.

brook

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
    • 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’.
    Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • Synonyms
    * beck * burn * coulee * creek * stream

    bike

    English

    Etymology 1

    From , by shortening, and possibly alteration. One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle'' is parsed to ''bi(cy)c(le).'' An alternative explanation is that ''bicycle'' is shortened to ''bic(ycle),'' and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in ''bicycle'' but retained as [k] in bike ; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).'' An Etymological Brainteaser: The Shortening of Bicycle to Bike, Robert B. Hausmann, American Speech, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 1976), pp. 272–274

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short form of bicycle.
  • A short form of motorbike.
  • (slang) A promiscuous woman; from “the town bike (everybody rides her)”.
    • Synonyms
    * (motorcycle): motorbike * (woman): slapper (British''), slag (''British )
    Derived terms
    * (bicycle) cross bike; dirt bike; like riding a bike; mountain bike; road bike; utility bike * (motorcycle) biker; bikey or bikie (Australia ); quad bike * (woman) town bike, village bike
    See also
    * trike
    References

    Verb

    (bik)
  • To ride a bike.
    • I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
  • To travel by bike.
    • It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.

    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, Northern England) A nest of wasps or hornets.
  • *1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 107:
  • *:he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.

    • Anagrams

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