abrook

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɹʊk/

Verb

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

  1. To brook; to endure. [First attested in the late 16th century.][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. “abrook” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, page 8.

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