brook

English Online Dictionary. What means brook‎? What does brook mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹʊk/, enPR: brŏŏk
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /bɹʉk/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /bɹuːk/
• Rhymes: -ʊk

Etymology 1

From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).

Verb

brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)

1. (transitive, formal, chiefly in the negative) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tolerate
2. (transitive, now chiefly Scotland) To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.

   Synonyms: apply, employ, utilize
3. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deserve

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Etymology 2

From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).

Noun

brook (plural brooks)

2. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
3. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
4. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

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References

• “brook”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English brūcan (“to use, enjoy”). See also brouk.

Verb

tae brook

1. To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of.