Meaning & use
Brock
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A badger, especially in British dialectal or literary usage.
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The old farmer spoke of a brock digging under the hedgerow at night.
In the folk tale, the brock outwits the fox through patience and cunning.
A note on using this word
Brock is an old English and Scots dialect word for badger, derived from the Old English 'brocc,' itself borrowed from a Celtic root; it survives mainly in rural or literary speech today.
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