abrook

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”).

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɹʊk/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊk

Verb

abrook (third-person singular simple present abrooks, present participle abrooking, simple past and past participle abrooked)

  1. To brook; to endure. [from late 16th c.][1]
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, act 2, scene 4, lines 8–12:
      […] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]

References
  1. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrook”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

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