brock
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//bɹɒk//
- United States//bɹɑk//
A male badger.
noun
- 1
A male badger.
Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock, Send in a cur to worry the whole flock.
- 2
archaicA brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
By sportsmen the stag is called, the first year, a calf or hind-calf ; the second year, a knobber ; the third, a brock ; the fourth, a staggard ; the fifth, a stag ; the sixth, a hart.
- 3
obsoleteA dirty, stinking fellow.
Etymology
From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.
verb
- 1
To taunt.
Then other boys noticed that he had a softness for me, and brocked us both, so that I, who had been as unconscious as ever of anything erotic, suddenly learnt what was going on &, by some profound power of suggestion, what my feelings actually were.
Forms
- plural
- brocks
- past tense
- brocked
- past participle
- brocked
- present participle
- brocking
- third person singular
- brocks