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Brock¹

  • /bɹɒk/ UK
  • /bɹɑk/ US

Rhymes with -ɒk

proper noun

  1. An English and Scottish surname from Middle English, a variant of Brook, or originally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger (Middle English broc(k)).
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname. "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock." "General Brock?" she asked, mystified. "General Isaac Brock, you know. The Battle of Queenston Heights, where we defeated the Americans." Her puzzled expression showed that she had not hear
  3. A small village in Myerscough and Bilsborrow parish, Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5140).
  4. A river in Lancashire which flows through the village to the River Wyre.
  5. An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri, United States.
  6. A village in Nemaha County, Nebraska, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in Darke County, Ohio, United States.
  8. A town in Parker County, Texas, United States.
  9. A township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
  10. A village in the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  11. A rural municipality (Rural Municipality of Brock No. 64) in Saskatchewan.
  12. A river in Quebec, Canada, a tributary of the Chibougamau River.

brock²

  • /bɹɒk/ UK
  • /bɹɑk/ US

Rhymes with -ɒk

Where it comes from

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.

noun brocks

  1. UK A male badger. Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock, Send in a cur to worry the whole flock.
  2. archaic, obsolete, possibly A 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. obsolete A dirty, stinking fellow.

verb brocks · brocking · brocked

  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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: brooke, glutton, brook, brok, sulzer, pester, badger, harass, nag, hound, heckle, bother, plague, beleaguer, harry, torment

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@misc{brock_2026,
  title = {brock},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brock},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}