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单词 broke
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broken.

Brit. /brəʊk/, U.S. /broʊk/
Forms: Old English–Middle English broc, 1500s–1700s brok, 1700s–1800s (dialect) brock, Middle English– broke.
Etymology: Old English broc ‘misery’, and gebroc ‘fragment’, < brecan (past participle ge-brocen ) to break v. The later lengthening of the vowel may be from the inflected dissyllabic forms broces, brocu, etc.: compare the participle broke, brōken, formerly brŏcen. Brock remains dialectally.
1. That which breaks; affliction, trouble, misery. Only in Old English.
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c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §10 God nyle for his mildheortnesse nan unaberendlice broc him ansettan.
971 Blickl. Hom. 59 Ealle þa sar and þa brocu þe se man to gesceapen is.
1061 in Thorpe Diplom. 389 Gefreod æghwylcere uneaþnesse ealles woroldlices broces.
2. A piece of anything broken off; a fragment; e.g. of bread or food, broken meats, remains. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment
shreddingc950
brucheOE
shredc1000
brokec1160
truncheonc1330
scartha1340
screedc1350
bruisinga1382
morsel1381
shedc1400
stumpc1400
rag?a1425
brokalyc1440
brokeling1490
mammocka1529
brokelette1538
sheavec1558
shard1561
fragment1583
segment1586
brack1587
parcel1596
flaw1607
fraction1609
fracture1641
pash1651
frustillation1653
hoof1655
arrachement1656
jaga1658
shattering1658
discerption1685
scar1698
twitter1715
frust1765
smithereens1841
chitling1843
c1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xv. 37 Þæt to lafe wæs of þam broccan [c975 Rushw. G. gebroca; c1000 Ags. G. gebrote], hys naman seofan wilian fulle.
1507 Will of Thomas Bedyll (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 220v A parcell of a broke of woode.
a1568 Wowing of Jok & Jenny x, Bannatyne Poems 160 Quhen ye haif done, tak hame the brok.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 211 (Jam.) I neither got stock nor brock.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Brock, a piece or fragment. West.
1863 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Coll. iii. 101 Wi' brocks an' scraps to plim well out.
3. A breaking of the skin or body; a wound; a rupture. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound
woundc900
soreOE
dolk?c1225
hurt?c1225
unsoundc1275
brokec1350
plaguea1382
lesurec1420
plaiea1470
blechure1483
wounding1581
bloodwipe1611
injurya1616
seat1634
trauma1684
c1350 Med. MS. in Archæol. XXX. 381 Hennebane rote Of ye broc is mych bote.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xxiv. 20 Broke for broke, eye for eye, tothe for tothe.
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Catech. & Other Pieces (1844) 94.
4. A breach of the law; a crime. Obsolete.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime
crimec1384
broke1481
facta1533
malefact1534
penalty1579
malefaction1604
malefacture1635
job1679
offence1683
criminality1750
operationa1902
1481 Reynard (1844) 92 Hadde I knowen my self gylty in ony feat or broke.
5. plural. The short-stapled wool found in certain parts of the fleece, when ‘broken’ or sorted. A fleece consists of two main kinds of wool distinguished by the length and strength of the fibre; the sorts which are long and suitable for combing being called ‘matchings’ or ‘combing-sorts’, the rest ‘short wools’ or ‘brokes’. The spinning of the two sorts is by different processes. See noil n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > short-stapled
short wool1728
brokes1879
1879 Standard 22 Apr. Wool and Worsted.—Bradford..Noils and brokes are slow of sale.
1883 Daily News 3 Sept. 2/6 Noils and brokes are in rather better request.
1885 F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Fibre 352 Gloss. Brokes, short locks of wool found on the edge of the fleece in the region of the neck and belly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

brokeadj.

Brit. /brəʊk/, U.S. /broʊk/
Etymology: Shortened < broken adj.
1. Used occasionally for broken adj.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adjective]
halfa1300
brokec1380
incompletec1380
imperfecta1398
infecta1398
unperfecta1398
uncompletec1430
unfullc1450
partile1576
unentire?1605
half-faced1607
fragmentary1612
broken1634
partiary1654
fractional1675
fractionarya1690
half-way1694
fragmentala1763
half-and-half1796
fragmentitious1827
incompleted1836
sectional1848
mincemeaty1870
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > broken
broken1383
bursted1527
pipped1540
fract1547
fracted1547
cracked1562
infract1593
fractured1617
broke1647
confragosea1684
staved1699
burst1812
bashed1830
snapped1869
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 14 Leepfullis of broke meat.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 41 To recompense broke silvir I had of his.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems iv. v Bodies disjoind, broke glasses they esteem.
2. esp. in combinations.
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c1230 Hali Meid. 25 Witlese beastes dumbe and broke rugget ibuhe toward te eorðe.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 131 Blinde or broke-schonket [B. vi. 138 broke-legged].
1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 53 Broke bakkyde, gibbosus.
1470 J. Hardyng Chron. clvii. iii Brokebacked and bowbacked bore.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) v. (R.) Broke-winded murmers, howlings, and sadd grones.
3. slang.
a. In predicative use = broken adj. 7; ruined financially, bankrupt; (often less seriously) penniless; also broke to the wide (see wide n.) or broke to the world. Frequently with qualifying word, as broke clean, broke dead, flat broke, stone-broke (see stone n. Compounds 2), stony broke (see stony adj. Compounds 3).Cf. the following, which are properly instances of break v. 11.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money
to the boneOE
silverlessc1325
pennilessc1330
moneylessc1400
impecunious1596
crossless1600
penceless1605
unmoneyed1606
coinless1614
emptya1643
out of pocket1679
money-bound1710
broke1716
embarrassed1744
stiver cramped1785
plackless1786
taper1789
poundlessa1794
shillingless1797
unpennied1804
fundless1809
impecuniary1814
hard up1821
soldier-thighed1825
cashless1833
stiverless1839
fly-blown1853
strapped1857
stick1859
tight1859
stone-broke1886
stony1886
oofless1888
stony-broke1890
motherless1906
penny-pinched1918
skinned1924
skint1925
on the beach1935
potless1936
boracic1959
uptight1967
brassic1982
1665 S. Pepys Diary 6 July (1972) VI. 150 It seems some of his Creditors have taken notice of it, and he was like to be broke yesterday in his absence.
1669 S. Pepys Diary 12 Mar. (1976) IX. 480 Being newly broke by running in debt.]
1716 J. Steuart Let. 28 Dec. in Let.-bk. (1915) 38 Alexr. Mackpherson..is much in arear and quit broke.1821 in N. Carolina Hist. Comm. I. 220 I have been broke now twelve months,..yet I move on in the old way.1842 Spirit of Times 2 Apr. 58/1 Barrett, poor fellow, is dead broke.1842 Spirit of Times 21 May 138/1 Every friend of Old Whitenose would have been flat broke!1843 Spirit of Times 14 Jan. 544/3 I was clean broke in less than four hours.1846 Spirit of Times 25 Apr. 101/2 I unfortunately am short of funds, flat broke, busted, collapsed.1851 N. Kingsley Diary (1914) 173 To day men have come along ‘dead broke’ and have gone to work for 4 dollars pr. day.1866 Cincinnati Enquirer 17 July (Schele de Vere) When he left the gambling-house, he was observed to turn toward a friend with the words, Dead-broke!1886 H. Smart Outsider vii Well, sir, I was broke—so broke as I hope I never shall be again—‘dead stoney’, barely expresses it.a1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang. (at cited word) Then came the fiasco, And Ben cried ‘Carrasco! I'm bested, broke, busted—or partly!’1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Aug. (Farmer) I see that Sullivan made 21,000 dols. out of his fight, but as he was ‘dead broke’ before the battle, there won't be much of it left.1890 G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose (new ed.) i. 18 We were ‘dead broke’.1898 ‘O. Thanet’ Heart of Toil 141 Think of them boys, who are all stone-broke.., wanting to lend me money.1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights i. vii. 133 Well, it took me six weeks and two days to go broke.1908 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. Ten and six for being manicured, and I'm absolutely broke.1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards xxi. 337 I'm flat broke.1918 W. J. Locke Rough Road iii I believe you good people think I've come back broke to the world.1926 J. Black You can't Win v. 53 [The landlady] wanted the rent. I told her I was broke.1927 Observer 18 Sept. 8/5 The twins will not be completely ‘broke’ until they get to France.
b. colloquial (originally U.S.). to go for broke: to risk everything or make every effort in order to achieve something; to try one's hardest, do one's utmost; to go all out.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > risk oneself > risk everything
to throw at allc1400
to send the axe after the helvea1450
to throw the helve after the hatchet1546
to go the vole1816
to go for broke1935
1935 Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 3 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) 30 1792/2 Let's go for broke.
1963 Guardian 5 June 6 If he were to go for broke on behalf of the Negroes..the President would endanger the moral reform cause.
2000 M. Gladwell Tipping Point 105 We decided, let's go for broke. Let's produce five full [television] shows..before we go to air.
4. Of animals: broken to harness; = broken adj. 8. Chiefly U.S.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > labouring > broken to harness
broke1800
1800 Sporting Mag. 16 117/2 The grand manege consists in teaching a horse, already perfectly broke in the common way, certain artificial motions.
1833 M. Holley Texas v. 97 This brutal process is repeated until the animal is thoroughly broke and rendered docile.
1850 W. Miles Jrnl. (1916) 12 500 broke mules were to be in readiness.
1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 275 Oxen exhibited as working cattle, for their being the best broke, must be hitched to either a wagon or cart.
1893 T. Roosevelt Wilderness Hunter xx. 426 The light-hearted belief..that any animal which by main force has been saddled and ridden..is a ‘broke horse’.
5. = broken adj. 1d. Also elliptical.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [adjective] > damaged or flawed
broken1807
water-galled1831
broke1888
M1894
1888 C. F. Cross & E. J. Bevan Text-bk. Paper-making vi. 104BrokePaper.—Under this head may be included all the partially formed paper which is always obtained..when a paper-machine is started, or such portions as are occasionally unavoidably damaged in its passage over the drying cylinders.
1888 C. F. Cross & E. J. Bevan Text-bk. Paper-making vi. 105Broke’ paper may be advantageously disintegrated by means of an edge-runner.
1954 J. Southward Mod. Printing (ed. 7) II. xlii. 449 Broke. The third grade of imperfect paper.

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colloquial (originally U.S.). if it ain't broke, don't (also why) fix it: if something is successful, effective, or not obviously defective, there is no need to change or replace it.
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1977 Nation's Business May 27/3 Bert Lance believes he can save Uncle Sam billions if he can get the government to adopt a simple motto: ‘If it ain't broke, don't fix it.’
1991 Q. Rev. Wines Autumn 46/3 Can we expect..any outré menu departures—such as bluefish tacos? Or is it simply a question of ‘if it ain't broke, don't fix it’?
2000 M. Brindle & L. A. Mainiero Managing Power through Lateral Networking iv. 54 The senior partners..were more comfortable with the old system. ‘If it's not broke, why fix it?’ was the attitude.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

brokev.

Brit. /brəʊk/, U.S. /broʊk/
Etymology: In form the base of broker, brokage, broking. An Anglo-Norman French verb abroker occurs in Liber Albus (a1419) 288.
1. intransitive. To bargain; to negotiate; to traffic.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement [verb (intransitive)] > negotiate
driveOE
treat1297
chaffer1377
broke1496
hucka1529
capitulate1537
hack1587
haggle1589
huckster1593
negotiate1598
to stand out1606
palter1611
to drive a hard bargaina1628
priga1628
scotch1627
prig1632
higgle1633
to dodge it1652
to beat a (the) bargain1664
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) vii. xxi. 308 [They] thus bargeyne & broke about the syngynge of the masse, that may not be solde ne bought, as men do in byenge & sellynge of an horse.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Brouillon, one that broakes in euery thing, whereby he may get but a pennie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. v. 71 He..brokes with all that can in such a suite Corrupt the tender honour of a Maide. View more context for this quotation
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxxiv. 209 The gaines of Bargaines, are of a more doubtfull Nature; When Men shall..broake by Seruants and Instruments to draw them on.
2. transitive. To retail, traffic in. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > [verb (transitive)]
monga1250
corsec1440
coss14..
merchant1511
chafferc1535
merchandise1538
mart1589
trade1589
broke1598
factor1611
handle1638
commercea1641
chop1645
chaffera1657
job1701
truck1715
to turn in1822
monger1928
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H5 But to retaile and broke anothers wit.
3. intransitive. To act as broker, agent, or go-between.
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society > trade and finance > brokerage > act as broker [verb (intransitive)]
brokea1652
operate1859
society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > act as delegate or deputy [verb (intransitive)] > manage on behalf of another
agitate1634
brokea1652
a1652 R. Brome City Wit ii. ii. sig. B8, in Five New Playes (1653) Prithee what art thou? or whom dost thou serve, or broke for.
a1666 Fanshawe in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between, Cupid said.
1926 G. K. Chesterton Outl. Sanity v. ii. 203 If men were not brokers, it was because they were not able to broke.
1965 ‘W. Haggard’ Hard Sell v. 54 I'm a stockbroker... I broked for Franchin.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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