Damaged, broken, or defective in quality, particularly referring to animals or coinage that doesn't meet standards.
From Old English 'brocen' (broken) and the '-ed' adjective suffix. Used dialectally to describe anything substandard or imperfect.
Farmers used 'brocked' to describe animals with defects or flaws—it's the same word root that gives us 'broken,' reminding us that language categorizes the world into whole and defective, perfect and damaged.
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