brock

plural brocks

1. UKA 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. archaicobsoletepossiblyA 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. obsoleteA dirty, stinking fellow.

present singular third person brocks · participle present brocking · participle past brocked · past 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

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.

   1 more example

   "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.

   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.