Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a brock or badger; beastly; brutal: as, “brockish boors,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Beastly; brutal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
beastly ;brutal
Etymologies
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brock + -ish?
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Examples
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He calls him "an epicurious archbishop, a brockish swine, and a dissembling proselyte," and accuses him in plain terms of "drunkenness and gluttony."
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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