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Vinony

brook

noun

  1. wetland
  2. small stream
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verb

  1. put up with something unpleasant
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bɹʊk/ / /bɹʉk/ / /bɹuːk/

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun brook. * As a north German surname, from Low German Brook (“swamp, marsh”), related to the above. * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Broek, from broek, also related to the above. * As a Jewish and German surname, Americanized from Bruck, Bruch (from Bruch (“wetland, marsh”)).

  1. A habitational surname from Middle English for someone living by a brook.
  2. A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”).
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks.
  4. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.
  5. A town in Newton County, Indiana, United States.
  6. A number of places in England:
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  14. A hamlet in Llanddowror community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2609).

noun

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

  1. 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.

verb

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”).

  1. To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.

    “brook no refusal”

    “I will not brook any disobedience.”

  2. 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.”

  3. To earn; deserve.