brooked, a. Sc.
Forms: 8 bruket, bruckit, 9 brooket, bruikit (ˈbrykɪt).
[Of uncertain origin: it has been taken as identical with brocked, but appears to be phonetically distinct.]
Streaked or marked with black; soot-begrimed.
| a 1796 Burns Wks. (1800) IV. 85 (Jam.) The bonie bruket Lassie certainly deserves better verses. 1810 J. Cock Simple Strains 137 (Jam.) Lat me to the brooket knave. 1832–53 Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs) ii. 105 To milk our bruckit cow. |