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plural brocks
(UK) a male badger. quotations examples
Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock, Send in a cur to worry the whole flock.
1756 , Ben Jonson, “The Tale of a Tub”, in Peter Whalley, editor, The Works of Ben Jonson, page 108
(archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old. quotations
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
(obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.
third-person singular simple present brocks, present participle brocking, simple past and past participle brocked
To taunt. quotations examples
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, page 112