brook.
To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
Meaning & usage
To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
brook no refusal
I will not brook any disobedience.
To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
To earn; deserve.
Where this word comes from
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”).
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
A water meadow, or (in the plural) low, marshy ground.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).
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