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American, Australian, British, English
From the Badger Meadow
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English
English : variant of Brookhouse.Americanized form of German Brockhaus.
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English : patronymic from Brock 2.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place near Accrington named Brocklehurst, from Old English brocc-hol ‘badger’s sett’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
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English : topographic name for a house by a stream, from Middle English brok(e) ‘brook’ + hous ‘house’.Americanized form of German Brockhaus.
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English : habitational name from Browston in Suffolk, recorded in Domesday Book as Brockestuna, from the Old English personal name Brocc (from Old English brocc ‘badger’) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, or from Broxton in Cheshire, an obscure name, possibly from Old English burgæsn ‘burial place’.Possibly an altered spelling of German Broxten, a variant of Broxtermann (see Broxterman).
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English
English : habitational name from Brackenborough in Lincolnshire or a similarly named place elsewhere (see Brackenbury). This name is found in VA from an early date.
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English : probably a habitational name from an unidentified minor place named with Old English brocc ‘badger’ + wiella ‘spring’, ‘stream’ or hol ‘hole’, ‘hollow’. Old English brocchol is known to have developed into Brockwell in at least one instance, in Derbyshire. Both Brockwell Park in London and Brockwell Farm in Buckinghamshire are of comparatively recent origin, probably deriving their names from the surname rather than vice versa.
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Stream; Badger
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or stream, an elaborated form of Brock 1.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.Respelling of German Brockmann.
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English, Scottish, and North German
English, Scottish, and North German : variant of Brook.English, Scottish, and Scandinavian : nickname for a person supposedly resembling a badger, Middle English broc(k) (Old English brocc) and Danish brok (a word of Celtic origin; compare Welsh broch, Cornish brogh, Irish broc). In the Middle Ages badgers were regarded as unpleasant creatures.English : nickname from Old French broque, brock ‘young stag’.Dutch : from a personal name, a short form of Brockaert .South German : nickname for a stout and strong man from Middle High German brocke ‘lump’, ‘piece’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : probably an acronymic family name from Jewish Aramaic bar- or Hebrew ben- ‘son of’, and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name. Compare Brill.Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name from Brok, a place in Poland.
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English
Surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English brocc BROCK means "badger."
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English
English : variant of Brocklebank, a habitational name from Brocklebank in Cumbria or Brockabank in West Yorkshire, both named from Old English brocc-hol ‘badger’s sett’ + Old Danish banke ‘bank’, ‘slope’.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, English, Jamaican
Brock's Town; Bracc's Settlement
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Shropshire named Badger, probably from an unattested Old English personal name Bæcg + Old English ofer ‘ridge’.English (West Midlands) : occupational name for a maker of bags (see Bagge 1) or for a peddler who carried his wares about with him in a bag. It is unlikely that the surname has anything to do with the animal (see Brock 2), which was not known by this name until the 16th century.English (West Midlands) : A Giles Badger from England was in Newbury, MA, by about 1635.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English broke ‘brook’ + weye ‘way’, ‘road’.
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English American
Brock's town.
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German American English
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English
English : variant of Brookhouse.
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English : habitational name, probably from a place in Dorset named Brockington, from Old English brÅchÇ£me ‘brook dweller’ + tÅ«n ‘settlement’.
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A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
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A brocket.
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Beastly; brutal.
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A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.
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A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
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A badger.
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A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus).