Dictionary

brock

see also: Brock

Pronunciation

Noun

brock (plural brocks)

(UK) a male badger.
(archaic, possibly, obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
(obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

Verb

brock (brocks, present participle brocking; past and past participle brocked)

To taunt.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, p.112)
  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.

Brock

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Surname, a variant of Brook, or originally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger (Middle English broc(k)).
A male given name.
- 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.
A small village in Fylde, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5140).
A river in Lancashire which flows through the village to the River Wyre.
An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri.
A village in Nemaha County, Nebraska.
An unincorporated community in Darke County, Ohio.
A city (?) in Parker County.
A township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario.
A village in the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290, in Saskatchewan, Canada.
A rural municipality (Brock No. 64) in Saskatchewan.
A river in Quebec, Canada, a tributary of the Chibougamau River.

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