broc

Inherited from Latin broccus.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɔk/

broc m (plural brocs)

1. spout
2. stick
3. trifle
4. (in the plural) excuses, pretexts

   No fotem, que no estic per brocs. ― Let's not fuck around, I'm not in the mood for excuses.

• (excuse): romanço

• broca

• “broc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “broc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “broc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Uncertain, perhaps borrowed from Old Provençal broc, related to Italian brocca (“jug”).

• IPA^(key): /bʁo/

  • Audio (France, Lyon)

    (file)

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
• IPA^(key): /bʁɔk/ (substandard, but sometimes heard; compare croc)

  • Audio

    (file)

• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ, -ɔk

broc m (plural brocs)

1. ewer, pitcher

• “broc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• broc (récipient) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

From Middle Irish brocc, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) (compare Welsh broch).

• IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠɔk/

broc m (genitive singular broic, nominative plural broic)

1. badger

• broc meala (“honey badger”)
• brocach (“badger den, sett”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “broc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “broc” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “broc” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

broc m (genitive singular broc, plural brockyn)

1. Alternative form of brock

• IPA^(key): /broːk/

From Proto-West Germanic *brōk.

brōc f

1. (in the plural) underpants; see brēċ
2. (euphemistic) butt

• Middle English: brek, breke, brech, breche, breech (all from the plural)
  • English: breech, breeches, britches

From Proto-West Germanic *brōk (etymology 2).

brōc m

1. brook

• Middle English: brook
  • English: brook
  • Scots: broke, bruke

From Middle Irish brocc. Cognates include Irish broc and Manx broc.

• IPA^(key): /pɾɔʰk/
• Hyphenation: broc

broc m (genitive singular bruic, plural bruic)

1. badger (Meles meles)
2. (obsolete) Synonym of faol (“wolf”)

• Colin Mark (2003), “broc”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 93

• IPA^(key): /brɔk/

From Middle English broce, from Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”).

broc m (uncountable)

1. sea wrack, driftwood

• broc môr (“driftwood”)

From Irish broc (“grey, mottled, flecked”) or English brock (“(inferior) horse, trotter”).

broc (feminine singular broc, plural broc, equative cyn froc, comparative mwy broc, superlative mwyaf broc)

1. (of a horse) roan

• brocfelyn (“chestnut roan, strawberry roan”)
• brocgoch (“bay roan, red roan”)
• broclas (“blue roan, grey roan”)
• brocwinau (“bay roan, red roan”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “broc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies