Associations to the word «Brooking»

Wiktionary

BROOK, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) (except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
BROOK, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To earn; deserve.
BROOK, verb. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
BROOK, noun. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. (In the US, brook is a New York and New England term; compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and Southern US branch.)
BROOK, noun. (Sussex) (Kent) A water meadow.
BROOK, noun. (Sussex) (Kent) (in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
BROOK, proper noun. A surname​ for someone living by a brook.
BROOK, proper noun. A surname​, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך.
BROOK, proper noun. A male given name transferred from the surname.
BROOK, proper noun. A female given name of modern usage; more often spelled Brooke.
BROOK ALDER, noun. American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
BROOK LAMPREY, noun. A small European lamprey, Lampetra planeri.
BROOK LAMPREYS, noun. Plural of brook lamprey
BROOK TROUT, noun. (British) A fish of the subspecies Salmo trutta fario, the brown trout.
BROOK TROUT, noun. A fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis.
BROOK TROUTS, noun. Plural of brook trout

Dictionary definition

BROOK, noun. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer".
BROOK, verb. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats