English

Proper noun

Brock

1. An English and Scottish surname​, 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.
   • 1949 Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press (2009), ISBN 1550028774, page 132:

     "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 heard of the occasion. Young Busby was shocked.

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• Brout (Moselle Franconian)
• Bruut (western Ripuarian)
• Bruck (Kölsch)

Etymology

From Old High German *brūd, northern variant of brūt. The word underwent the regular Ripuarian velarization -ūd- → -ugd- → -og-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʀok/

Noun

Brock f ‎(plural Bröck)

1. (central and eastern Ripuarian) bride (woman on or with regard to her wedding day)

English

Noun

brock ‎(plural brocks)

1. (Britain) a male badger.
   • Ben Jonson

     With pretence of chasing thence the brock.

2. A brocket.

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Verb

brock ‎(third-person singular simple present brocks, present participle brocking, simple past and past participle brocked)

1. to taunt
   • 1988 : 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. - Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 112)