bruck

See also: Bruck

English

Etymology

From Jamaican Creole bruck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹʌk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Adjective

bruck (not comparable)

1. (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

2. (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

bruck (third-person singular simple present brucks, present participle brucking, simple past and past participle brucked) (Jamaica, MLE)

1. (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

• bruckback

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English break.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹʌk/
• Hyphenation: bruck

Adjective

bruck

1. 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 (in Jamaican Creole), 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

bruck

1. 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 (in Jamaican Creole), →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, […]

2. (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] (in Jamaican Creole):

     “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

• bruck out

References

• bruck – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

Lower Sorbian

Noun

bruck m anim

1. diminutive of bruk (“beetle”)

Further reading

• 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