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brook
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: br??k, IPA(key): /b??k/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /b?u?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English br?can (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan? (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to enjoy”). German brauchen is cognate.
Verb
brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)
- (transitive, formal) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
- 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing ?ISBN, page 104
- After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
- 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing ?ISBN, page 104
- (transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III scene ii[2]:
- […] How brooks your grace the air, / After your late tossing on the breaking seas?
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III scene ii[2]:
- (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
Synonyms
- (use): apply, employ, utilize
- (earn): See also Thesaurus:deserve
- (tolerate): See also Thesaurus:tolerate
Derived terms
- abrook
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English brook, from Old English br?c (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kaz (“stream”).
Noun
brook (plural brooks)
- A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
- The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
- (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
- (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- Holcombe Brook
- Rea Brook
- Stamford Brook
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English br?can (“to use, enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan?. See also brouk.
Verb
tae brook
- To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of.
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brooklet
English
Etymology
From brook +? -let.
Noun
brooklet (plural brooklets)
- A little brook.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
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