different between brack vs brock

English

Etymology 1

From Dutch brak.

Noun

brack (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
   • 1627: "The Moone-Calfe" by Michael Drayton

     The very earth to fill the hungry mawe;

     When they far'd best, they fed on Fearne and brack,

Etymology 2

Compare Dutch braak.

Noun

brack (plural bracks)

1. An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
   • c. 1624,, John Fletcher, A Wife for a Day, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     You may find time out in eternity,

     Deceit and violence in heavenly Justice,

     Life in the grave, and death among the blessed,

     Ere stain or brack in her sweet reputation.

2. A flaw in cloth.
   • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 164,^[2]

     […] You must take care that all the bracks and rents in the Linen be duly mended.

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

brack (countable and uncountable, plural bracks)

1. Barmbrack.

Further reading

• brack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Scots

Verb

brack (third-person singular present brackin, present participle brackit, past brackit, past participle brackit)

1. Doric form of brak (“to break”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

brock (plural brocks)

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

Verb

brock (third-person singular simple present brocks, present participle brocking, simple past and past participle brocked)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Borck

Scots

Etymology 1

Old Scots brok or broke, from Old English broc, Scottish Gaelic broc (“badger”).

Noun

brock (plural brocks)

1. badger
2. a despised person

Etymology 2

From Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”).

Noun

brock (plural brocks)

1. leftovers, scraps of bread or meat
2. rubbish, (especially) something broken
3. something or someone of little worth, small potatoes