bruckn.
/brʌk/, U.S. /brək/, Scottish English /brʌk/ Scottish (Orkney and Shetland).
Rubbish, litter. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]
wrakea1350
outcastingc1350
rammel1370
rubble1376
mullockc1390
refusec1390
filtha1398
outcasta1398
chaff?a1400
rubbishc1400
wastec1430
drossc1440
raff?1440
rascal1440
murgeonc1450
wrack1472
gear1489
garblec1503
scowl1538
raffle1543
baggage1549
garbage1549
peltry1550
gubbins?1553
lastage1553
scruff1559
retraict1575
ross1577
riddings1584
ket1586
scouring1588
pelf1589
offal1598
rummage1598
dog's meat1606
retriment1615
spitling1620
recrement1622
mundungus1637
sordes1640
muskings1649
rejectament1654
offscouring1655
brat1656
relicts1687
offage1727
litter1730
rejectamenta1795
outwale1825
detritus1834
junk1836
wastements1843
croke1847–78
sculch1847
debris1851
rumble1854
flotsam1861
jetsam1861
pelt1880
offcasting1893
rubbishry1894
littering1897
muckings1898
wastage1898
dreck1905
bruck1929
crap1934
garbo1953
clobber1965
dooky1965
grot1971
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1929 E. Linklater White Maa's Saga 122 He took that cheap-jack wha'd been swindling folk aal day and flang him fair in the middle o' his toys and bruck.
1931 Shetland Times 14 Mar. in Sc. National Dict. (1968) at Perskeet Da pirskeet objik ill laekly gjen awa' sooth an' w'rit a' lok o' bruck aboot hoo he met in with an oonceevilised aald man.
1952 Stenwick Ann. 23 As always there were two schools of thought on the standard of the entertainment, the one holding that it had been wonderful, the other taking the view that it had been a lot of bruck.
1993 in Sc. National Dict. New Suppl. (Electronic text) (at cited word) Dinna chuck bruck! (Notice in a carpark in Shetland).
2014 Daily Rec. (Glasgow) (Nexis) 3 Apr. We were doing the beach clear-up [at Otterswick, Yell], redding up all the bruck that was lying on the beach.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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