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brock

/bɹɒk/US/bɹɑk/

brock noun: a male badger.

Noun

brock (plural brocks)

  1. (UK) A male badger.
    • Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock,
      Send in a cur to worry the whole flock.1756 [1704], Ben Jonson, “The Tale of a Tub”, in Peter Whalley, editor, The Works of Ben Jonson, page 108
  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.1833, “Stag”, in The Sportsman’s Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, page 417
  3. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

Verb

brock (third-person singular simple present brocks, present participle brocking, simple past and past participle 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.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 112

Proper noun capitalized: Brock

Brock

  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...1949, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 132
  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.

brock meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi and Odia

brock in Tamil

நாறி, நாற்றவிலங்கு

brock in Bengali

ব্রক

brock in Punjabi

ਬਰੌਕ

brock in Odia

ବ୍ରକ୍

Forms of brock

Noun
pluralbrocks
Verb
third-person singular presentbrocks
present participlebrocking
past participlebrocked
pastbrocked

Plural of brock: brocks

Origin of brock

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.

Words formed from brock

Words that rhyme with brock

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Questions about brock

What does brock mean?
Brock means a male badger.
What is brock in Tamil?
Brock in Tamil is நாறி, நாற்றவிலங்கு. See Brock meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brock?
Brock can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brock?
Brock is pronounced /bɹɒk/ (UK).
What is the plural of brock?
The plural of brock is brocks.

Words near brock in the dictionary

  1. brocialism
  2. brocialist
  3. brocialists
  4. Brocious
  5. Brociouses
  6. brock
  7. brockage
  8. brockages
  9. Brockbank
  10. Brockbanks
  11. brocked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brock (page history and authors); Brock (page history and authors); brock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brock (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brock (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brock (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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