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brockish

brockish adjective: beastly; brutal.

Adjective

brockish (comparative more brockish, superlative most brockish)

  1. (obsolete) beastly; brutal
    • Those brockish boores haue gone frely foreward without checke.1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries

Forms of brockish

comparativemore brockish
superlativemost brockish

Origin of brockish

From brock + -ish?

Questions about brockish

What does brockish mean?
Brockish means beastly; brutal.
What part of speech is brockish?
Brockish is an adjective.

Words near brockish in the dictionary

  1. Brockhurst
  2. Brockie
  3. brocking
  4. Brockington
  5. Brockingtons
  6. brockish
  7. brockite
  8. brockle
  9. Brocklebank
  10. Brocklehurst
  11. Brocklesby

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