Brock

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /brÉ’k/
• US IPA: /brɑːk/
• Rhymes: -É’k

Origin

From Old English broc, itself from a source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh.

Full definition of brock

Noun

1. (UK) a male badger.
• Ben JonsonWith pretence of chasing thence the brock.
2. A brocket.

Verb

1. to taunt
• 1988 : 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. - Alan Hollinghurst, , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 112)