broc

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɾɔk]

Inherited from Latin broccus.

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, 2025.
• “broc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

broc

1. (Balearic) first-person singular present indicative of brocar

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

• IPA^(key): /bʁo/

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

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• 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/^[1]

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
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “broc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “broc”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

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

Strong consonant stem:

• 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

Strong a-stem:

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

broc m

1. alternative form of brocc

brōc ?

1. labour, toil
2. affliction
3. disease

Strong a-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bróc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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 (“brushwood, fragment”), 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 mor froc, comparative mwy broc, superlative mwyaf broc)

1. roan (of a horse)

• 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