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Brooked vs Brooke - What's the difference?

brooked | brooke |

As verbs the difference between brooked and brooke

is that brooked is (brook) while brooke is .

As a noun brooke is

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brooked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (brook)

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    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’.
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    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

    brooke

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Brook (wikipedia Brooke)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname, fairly popular since the 1970s.

    • Quotations

    * 1993 , Devil's Waltz , Random House 1998, ISBN 0345460715, page 85 *: "Cassie B.," I said. "What does the B. stand for?" *: "Brooks - that was my maiden name. It's sort of a tribute to Aunt Harriet. It's not exactly feminine, I guess. Brooke' with an e would have been more of a girl's name. Like ' Brooke Shields. But I wanted to remember Aunt Harriet."

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