A badger, especially in British and Scottish usage; also an archaic word for a male badger.
From Old English 'broc,' possibly from a Celtic root. The word appears in medieval literature and persists in British regional dialects where badgers are still called brocks.
Brock is one of those delightfully specific old words that survives mostly in place names like 'Brockley'—badgers were important enough to humans that they got their own creature-name!
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