brock

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɹɒk/ (General American) IPA(key): /bɹɑk/ Rhymes: -ɒk === Noun === brock (plural brocks) (UK) A male badger. (archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow. ==== Derived terms ==== === Verb === brock (third-person singular simple present brocks, present participle brocking, simple past and past participle brocked) To taunt. === Anagrams === Borck == Manx == === Alternative forms === broc === Etymology === From Middle Irish brocc, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) (compare Welsh broch). === Noun === brock m (genitive singular brock, plural brockyn) badger === Mutation === == Scots == === Etymology 1 === From Early Scots brok, broke, from Old English broc, Scottish Gaelic broc (“badger”). ==== Noun ==== brock (plural brocks) badger a despised person === Etymology 2 === From Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”). ==== Noun ==== brock (plural brocks) leftovers, scraps of bread or meat rubbish, (especially) something broken something or someone of little worth, small potatoes I neither got stock nor brock ― I have nothing, great or small.