brockish

brockish

English

Etymology

brock +‎ -ish?

Adjective

brockish (comparative more brockish, superlative most brockish)

1. (obsolete) beastly; brutal
   • 1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries

     Those brockish boores haue gone frely foreward without checke.

References

• brockish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913