brock
sostantivoverboattestato nei dialoghi
- Regno Unito//bɹɒk//
- Stati Uniti//bɹɑk//
A male badger.
sostantivo
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A male badger.
Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock, Send in a cur to worry the whole flock.
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arcaicoA 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.
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obsoletoA dirty, stinking fellow.
Etimologia
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.
verbo
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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.
Forme
- plurale
- brocks
- passato
- brocked
- participio passato
- brocked
- participio presente
- brocking
- 3ª persona singolare
- brocks