The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brook \Brook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]
To use; to enjoy. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
--Spenser.Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten?
--Macaulay. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.]
--Sir J. Hawkins.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of brook English) allowing or putting up with.
Wikipedia
Brooking is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Brooking (c. 1723–1759), English painter
- Christopher Brooking, English politician
- Keith Brooking (born 1975), American football player
- Patrick Brooking (1937–2014), British Army general
- Trevor Brooking (born 1948), English footballer and manager
Usage examples of "brooking".
If Harold and I don't know where the bodies are buried, Brooking will.
He was with Marvel and Brooking Davis, and I could hear them talking in the background.
Hill, Ballem, and Brooking Davis had been sworn in as the new city councilmen.
After some heated discussion - and a recess, during which Marvel spoke to Brooking Davis - the proposal was rejected, three to two, with Bell and Dodge voting in favor.
You better get back here quick if Brooking Davis and Reverend Dodge are going to elect you to the council.
Two minutes later it was done, and the two men walked out through the side door, leaving Bell at the council table, along with Brooking Davis and Reverend Dodge.
Everyone has a soft spot for Peters and Moore and Hurst and Brooking and the West Ham “Academy”, just as everyone loathes and despises Storey and Talbot and Adams and the whole idea and purpose of Arsenal.
He said a few words about there being a tide in the affairs of men, going with the flow, life as a river, the fount of all knowledge, sinners being pond scum, and brooking no arguments from any outsiders who decried the methods of the Soulhaven Retreat and Starchild Immersionarium because such drips were spiritual wet blankets.
It appeared that Ignace did not share the humor, for after a moment the agent jumped to his feet and said to the strangler, in a tone of voice brooking no argument: "Greyboar!
Piezki was a lawyer in the same firm as Brookings, a little younger, and not quite the snappy dresser that the dapper A.
There were those who whispered that Brookings sucked blood to stay young, and he would always air these statements to his office and colleagues with the addendum that if he indeed sucked blood, it was only metaphorical-and could you undo that collar a bit .
She looked over to Brookings for backup, but the lawyer just gave her a "This is your shit you just stepped in, colleague" look that he'd perfected with partners in court.
They were big and dominating enough that Brookings cringed a bit at their obvious displeasure.
But this was all peripheral to the main show, which Brookings watched with horrified fascination, rifle down and ready.
It was going almost too fast to see, but Brookings, who had excellent eyesight, made out the dim outline of some kind of boomeranglike device.