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brocking

brocking is the present participle and gerund of brock.

Meaning of brock

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

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Questions about brocking

What is brocking the present participle and gerund of?
Brocking is the present participle and gerund of brock.

Words near brocking in the dictionary

  1. Brockhill
  2. Brockhills
  3. Brockholes
  4. Brockhurst
  5. Brockie
  6. brocking
  7. Brockington
  8. Brockingtons
  9. brockish
  10. brockite
  11. brockle

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