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[From Patricia Hanks and Flavia Hodges,
"A DICTIONARY OF SURNAMES", Oxford University
Press, 1988]
BROC French: 1. nickname, probably for a person
with a prickly temperament, from OF _broc_,
point, spur [of Gaul. origin]. The word has
many other meanings--a pointed weapon for
stabbing, a deer's antler, a needle, a spit,
a jug with a pointed handle, spiny vegetation, etc.--and any or all of these
senses may also have contributed to the
surname, which may also have been originally
an occupational or topographic name.
2. nickname meaning 'badger', from Bret.
_broc'h_ [see BROCK 2].
Vars.[of 1]: BROCHE, BRO(C)QUE, BROCH(I)ER,
BROQUIER (these last being occupational names
for makers of pointed objects of some kind).
Cogns [of 1]. Prov.: BROCA(S)
Dims. [of 1]. Fr.: BROCHET, BRO(C)QUET,
BROCHON, BROCHOT.
Pejs. [of 1] Fr.: BROC(H)ARD, BROC(H)ART.
NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS:
Vars.: VARIANTS
Cogns.: COGNATES
Dims.: DIMINUTIVES
Pejs.: PEJORATIVES
OF: Old French
Gaul. Gaulic
Prov.: Provençal
Fr.: French
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