brook

verb

/bɹʊk/

Etymology

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”).

derived from *bʰruHg-✻ — “to enjoy”
inherited from *brūkaną✻ — “to enjoy, use”
inherited from *brūkan✻
inherited from brūcan — “to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”
inherited from brouken — “to use, enjoy”

Definitions

1
To bear
To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
- brook no refusal
- I will not brook any disobedience.
- I will brook no impertinence.
2
To enjoy the use of
To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
- Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre, / After your late toſſing on the breaking Seas?
- The girl’s spirit would brook a husband under no such conditions: she was not minded to run forward because Pen chose to hold out the handkerchief, and her tone, in reply to Arthur, showed her determination to be independent.
To earn
To earn; deserve.
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1. 4
  A body of running water smaller than a river
  A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
  - empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
  - The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
2. A water meadow, or (in the plural) low, marshy ground.
3. A habitational surname from Middle English for someone living by a brook.
4. A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh,…
  A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”).
5. A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks.
6. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.
7. A town in Newton County, Indiana, United States.
8. A number of places in England
  A number of places in England:
9. A hamlet in Llanddowror community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2609).

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Derived

abrook, unbrookable, Common nouns, American brook char, American brook charr, babbling brook, broker, brook alder, brookie, brook lamprey, brookless, brooklet, brooklike, brooklime, brook mint, brookside, brook springfly, brook trout, brook wakerobin, brookweed, Proper nouns, Allynbrook, Anniebrook, Ashbrook, Bellbrook, Bessbrook, Blakebrook, Bonnie Brook, Boorara Brook, Bound Brook, Boyup Brook, Braybrook, Briarbrook, Broad Brook, Brookdale, Brooker, Brookfield, Brookhampton, Brookhaven, Brookhill · +101 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at brook. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at brook. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at brook

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA