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brookitadj. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Faroese brókutur , Norwegian brokutt , Old Swedish brokoter (Swedish †brokot ; now superseded by brokig ), Danish broget , all in sense ‘variegated, speckled, spotted’), of uncertain origin, probably < a suffixed form of the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic brók trousers, breeches (see breech n.), perhaps initially with reference to the appearance of the markings on an animal. With the suffix compare Old Icelandic -óttr , ultimately < a variant of the Germanic base of -y suffix1 with dental extension; see further H. Krahe & W. Meid German. Sprachwiss. (ed. 7, 1969) III. §145. In English the ending was apparently reanalysed as -ed suffix2.The α. forms show regular Older Scots fronting of long close ō (to /yː/), as well as (in some forms) subsequent diphthongization (before k ) to /yu/ or /iu/ (later /ju/) and yod-absorption after a liquid consonant, resulting in modern reflexes in /u/ and /ʌ/ (see A. J. Aitken & C. Macafee Older Sc. Vowels (2002) §7.2.1). In β. forms apparently influenced by association with brock n.1 and also with Scottish Gaelic brocach and Irish brocach speckled, spotted, dirty, pockmarked (17th cent.; apparently < broc badger (see brock n.1) + -ach , suffix forming adjectives). The Irish English (southern) form bracket is probably influenced by Irish breac speckled, spotted (see bracken n.2). Originally and chiefly Scottish. α. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Adv. 19.2.3) i. l. 217 The brukit bestis and þe ware He gert depart fra quhite and fair. 1693 in A. W. C. Hallen (1894) 158 For a bruiked cow. a1779 D. Graham (1883) II. 162 Ah! how we drank other's healths with the broe of the brewket ewes. 1788 J. Macaulay 123 I hae a bruckit ewe, I like fu' dear, That has a pair o' lambies ilka year. 1812 W. Stevenson xiv. 395 Several of these sheep have black noses, and are rather black intermixed with white near the hoof, in which case they are said to be brooked. 1839 A. Rodger in 2nd Ser. 106 To milk our bruckit cow. 1864 W. D. Latto xxxiv. 364 To see..that the ill-deedy bruckit stot didna break his baikie. 1878 W. Dickinson (ed. 2) 11/2 A white sheep having the belly and legs black is a breuk't sheep in colour. β. 1503 in J. B. Paul (1900) II. 203 For tua brokit hidis to couir ane sadil quhit.1582 in J. C. Hodgson (1906) III. 86 To my sone, William Catricke, two branded stotts, one brocked stotte,..and one graie meare.1606 Edinb. Test. XLI. f. 289v, in at Brokit Thrie tydie ky..ane broun brokit collour.1763 Feb. 117/2 Brocked Oats, with fodder.?1775 (new ed.) ii. 8 Then he gets a piece of chalk.., and therewith rubs over the cows face and back, which made her both brocket [1790 brucket] and rigget.1793 J. Sinclair VI. 284 The greatest part of them are of the Galloway breed, having black or brocked faces, and their wool is coarse.1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in 2nd Ser. IV. 23 If Gowans, the brockit cow, has a quey.1884 D. Grant 13 My sister lost the brocket lam'.1941 J. W. G. MacEwan xlvii. 484 Where the face is ‘brockit’ or broken in colour, the black and white must be distinct.2013 July 3 Chocolate-brown and brockit sheep grazed the green lands that once bore crops of oats, potatoes, turnips and hay. 2. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > by tears a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in (1998) I. 57 As blaksmyth bruikit was his pallatt. a1796 G. Thomson Let. in R. Burns (1800) IV. 85 The bonie brucket Lassie, certainly deserves better verses. 1818 J. Jamieson (abridged ed.) at Broukit The face is said to be broukit, when it has spots or streaks of dirt on it, when it is partly clean and partly foul. 1857 (2nd Thousand) vii. 64 He's jist a wee, dumpy, brucket, black-a-vised crater. 1891 A. Matthews 30 Oh! gin oor fauts were a' revealed, There wad be mony a brockit chield. 1894 ‘F. Mackenzie’ xvii. 182 Jessie, haud your tongue, an' wash that brookit face. 1925 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ 1 Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn! But greet, an' in your tears ye'll droun The haill clanjamfrie! a1943 W. Soutar (1948) 407 As bruckit frae the brundin bale The rizzard grapes upraucht. 1996 I. W. D. Forde 8 We aye hed a guid screingin wi a pumiss stane or a nail birss gin we hed bruikit hauns. 2003 W. N. Herbert To Robert Fergusson in R. Crawford 202 Ye mairried Pluto's dreary toun Tae Reekie in hur broukit goun. the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox a1908 H. C. Hart MS Coll. Ulster Words in M. Traynor (1953) 36/2 Brockit, pock-marked. 1928 ‘M. Mulcaghey’ ii. 25 Long Tam was coortin' a daughter of brockit James Wallace's of the Brae face. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1500 |