Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To taunt.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA male badger. · A brocket, a stag between two and three years old. · A dirty, stinking fellow.
From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.
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