bruck
See also: Bruck
English
editEtymology
editFrom Jamaican Creole bruck.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editbruck (not comparable)
- (MLE) Broke, out of liquidity.
- 2020 May 28, K-Trap (lyrics and music), “Private Snap”[1]:
- No we ain't rich but I ain't too bruck
I hear them spit, they're tryna be us
Run out of flizz, I'm tryna re-up
- (MLE) Broken, of annihilated substance integrity.
- 2017 December 15, AWATE (lyrics and music), “The Ghetto” (track 4), in Happiness[2]:
- And the TV is bruck
Verb
editbruck (third-person singular simple present brucks, present participle brucking, simple past and past participle brucked) (Jamaica, MLE)
- (MLE) Alternative form of break
- 2017 May 2, Figure Flows (lyrics and music), “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:04:
- Still got a line for the peng
But now I get money from shows (haha)
Still gotta get these squares
And bruck them down into O's (trust)
- 2017 July 9, “Behind Barz”, Skengdo (lyrics), performed by Skengdo & AM, from 2:21:
- Blacked out, blacked out, blacker than who?
Blackz with the blade and he brucked it too
- 2019 April 30, “The Godfather”, Ink (lyrics), 1:14–1:16:
- stab him in the face and bruck that shank got
- 2020 March 15, (C Block) Christo (lyrics and music), “Chickens”, from 1:20:
- Just got off the phone
Grabbed a couple of chickens
I’m brucking them down
Me and my soldiers go hit them
Derived terms
editJamaican Creole
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editbruck
- broke, broken
- Bruck an nah no money, but me no response.
- I'm broke and I don't have any money, but I don't care.
- Dat a one bruck up sinting weh can't fix.
- That thing is broken and it can't be fixed.
- 1986, C. Davies, Poetry Wales, volume 22, page 33:
- “Miss Lize, Eena de middle a de night, Yuh shoulda hear di nize. […] Tap, mah, mi noh done yet. For de husban' whey dem beat up still a wait fi im bruck foot set . […] ”
- Miss Lisa, You should hear the noise late at night. […] Stop, I'm not finished yet. Because the husband who they beat up is still waiting for his broken leg to heal. […]
Verb
editbruck
- break
- Car, bus and truck a bruck down.
- Cars, buses, and trucks are breaking down.
- 2001, Lindsay McNab, Imelda Pilgrim, Marian Slee, Skills in English: 2, →ISBN, page 45:
- “Min' yuh bruck Jane collar-bone, Tom! Tek yuh foot off o' de desk, […] ”
- "Mind you don't break Jane's collarbone, Tom. Don't step on the desk, […]
- (vulgar, slang) cum, ejaculate
- Luv it when mi sink it you quint it a so mi bruck.
- I love when I go deep inside of you and you contract your vaginal muscles. I can't help but cum.
- 2012, Iyara, “Whine Up Lyrics - Iyara”, in Metrolyrics[3]:
- “Cocky gone up inna har. She seh she feel sumpn tough inna har. Mi 4 pocket full up wid money but. Mi a fuck till mi bruck inna har. […] ”
- My cock went inside her. She said she felt something hard inside her. My 4 pockets were full of cash. I fucked her until I came inside of her. […]
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- bruck – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
Lower Sorbian
editNoun
editbruck m anim
- diminutive of bruk (“beetle”)
Further reading
edit- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “bruck”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “bruck”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
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