brook
verbnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//bɹɵk//
- Australia//bɹʊk//
- Scotland//bɾʉk//
- //bɾʊk//
To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
verb
- 1
To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
brook no refusal
I will not brook any disobedience.
I will brook no impertinence.
how shall I brook to be the first cause of difference between a father and son, to whom the averted look and the harsh word have been hitherto unknown?
- 2
To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre, / After your late toſſing on the breaking Seas?
The girl’s spirit would brook a husband under no such conditions: she was not minded to run forward because Pen chose to hold out the handkerchief, and her tone, in reply to Arthur, showed her determination to be independent.
- 3
obsoleteTo earn; deserve.
Etymology
From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).
noun
- 1
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].
"Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about."
- 2
A water meadow, or (in the plural) low, marshy ground.
Etymology
From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).
Forms
- plural
- brooks
- past tense
- brooked
- past participle
- brooked
- present participle
- brooking
- third person singular
- brooks
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