ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Brock

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /bɹɒk/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Brock is a noun meaning (UK) A male badger.

Meaning

(UK) A male badger.

More Meanings

  1. To taunt.
  2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
  3. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

Example Sentences

Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock, Send in a cur to worry the whole flock.
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.
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.

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Related dictionary entries include brooke, glutton, brook, pester, badger, harass.

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