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Date "BROCKEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
"BROCKEN" is a common misspelling or typo for: bracken, brocket, broken. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Brocken The spectre of the Brocken. This is the shadow of men and other objects greatly magnified and reflected in the mist and cloud of the mountain opposite. The Brocken is the highest summit of the Harz range. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BROCKEN |
| Specialty definitions using "BROCKEN": Spectre of the Brocken. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BROCKEN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (boulder, boulders, chunk, dollop, gobbet, gobbets, hunk, hunks, lump, scrap, snatch, whopper). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He apostrophised, as he leaped across a brook, a portress with a beard fit to meet Faust upon the Brocken, who had her broom in her hand. |
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Expressions using "BROCKEN": Brocken specter ♦ Brocken spectre ♦ the brocken. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brocken | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "BROCKEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ブロック塀 (blob, blonde, bond, bromide, bronze, concrete block wall, publicity photograph). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ブロッケン . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockenbray blåkulla (the brocken). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-k-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: beckon, broken, conker, reckon. | |
-2 letters: boner, borne, brock, broke, bronc, crone, krone, ocker, recon. | |
-3 letters: beck, bock, bone, bonk, bore, born, bren, cero, coke, cone, conk, core, cork, corn, ebon, keno, kerb, kern, knob, kore, neck, nock, once, reck, robe, rock. | |
-4 letters: ben, bro, cob, con, cor, eon, ern, ken, kob, kor, neb, nob. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-k-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: beckoner. | |
+2 letters: beckoners, workbench. | |
+3 letters: cornerback. | |
+4 letters: cabinetwork, cinderblock, cornerbacks, workbenches. | |
+5 letters: backcourtmen, backgrounded, backgrounder, cabinetworks, cinderblocks. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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