brook
Plural: brooks
Noun
- a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
- A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
- A water meadow.
- Low, marshy ground.
Verb
Verb Forms: brooked, brooking, brooks
- To allow, tolerate, or endure something, typically disagreement.
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
- To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
- To earn; deserve.
Examples
- brook no refusal
- I will brook no impertinence.
- I will not brook any disobedience.
- She would not BROOK any mistakes, meticulously checking her word validity before playing.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
abide, bear, creek, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate, abear, aby, accept, allow, apply, be worthy of, beck, bide, brook, burn, coulee, deserve, dree, earn, employ, forbear, garner, go along with, live with, merit, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, reap, stick, stream, swallow, take, take sitting down, thole, undergang, undergo, utilize, win
Scrabble Score: 11
brook: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbrook: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brook: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary