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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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trickle
English
Etymology
Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??k?l/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Noun
trickle (plural trickles)
- A very thin river.
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
- A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
- 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa
- The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.
Translations
Verb
trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)
- (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
- (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
Derived terms
- trickle truth
Translations
Anagrams
- tickler
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