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Brooke

//bɹʊk// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Middle English.
  2. 2
    A female given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular since the 1970s. it was further popularized by Brooke Shields in the 80s.
  3. 3
    A village and civil parish (without a council) in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8405).
Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of brook. alt-of, obsolete

    "Others the utmost boughs of trees doe crop, And brouze the woodbine twigges that freshly bud; This with full bit* doth catch the utmost top Of some soft willow, or new growen stud**; This with sharpe teeth the bramble leaves doth lop, 85 And chaw the tender prickles in her cud; The whiles another high doth overlooke Her owne like image in a christall brooke."

Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of brook. alt-of, obsolete
  2. 2
    Obsolete spelling of broke. alt-of, obsolete

Etymology

A topographic surname for someone who lived near a brook.

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