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brookable (comparative more brookable, superlative most brookable)

1. (rare, Scotland) That may be brooked; bearable, endurable, tolerable.
   • 1824, [James Hogg], “The Editor’s Narrative”, in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: […], London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 62:

     He saw every feature, and every line of the face, distinctly, as it gazed on him with an intensity that was hardly brookable.

   • 1826, James Hogg, “A Pastoral Love Scene”, in Thomas C[harles] Richardson, editor, Contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (The Collected Works of James Hogg; 23), volume 1 (1817–1828), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, January–December 1826 (Volumes 19–20); scene 2, page 196:

     I am maimed. I am dumfoundered ever sin I engaged mysel to Keatie M,Cheyne. Had I been married—downrightly married it had been brookable; but here I am like a dog tied to a kirn that maunna taste the cream for days an’ months an’ years.

   • [1832], [James Hogg], “Period of His Residence at Mossgiel”, in “Memoir of Burns”, in the Ettrick Shepherd [pseudonym; James Hogg], William Motherwell, editors, The Works of Robert Burns, volume V, Glasgow: Archibald Fullarton, and Co. […], published 1836, page 64:

     Burns was naturally flattered by this attention, as appears both from his very clever dedication and letters; for though he was jealous of the great to an extent that was scarcely brookable, and shunned pecuniary obligations to any of them as much as he would have shunned adders in his path, yet, from the whole of his correspondence, it appears that the countenance of the great was highly agreeable to him.

   • 1835, James Telfer, chapter XI, in Barbara Gray, or The Widow’s Daughter: A Narrative of Humble Life, Newcastle upon Tyne: […] J[ohn] Blackwell & Co. and sold by E[merson] Charnley, […], page 171:

     But, if ye winna misbelieve me, I can tell ye, that if ye hadna come to Trystingtown the night, some o’ us wad hae been at Greensheiling the morn, if the day had been brookable.

   • 1881, John Younger, chapter XXII, in Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker, St. Boswells, […], Kelso, Scottish Borders: J[ohn] & J[ames] H[ogarth] Rutherfurd, […]; Edinburgh; Glasgow: John Menzies & Co., pages 264–265:

     Half a year of this had so far exhausted her wonderful patience that she had determined to forego all the other advantages of this otherwise easy service, and rather again endure the severe daily labour of a farmer’s kitchen. But on a hint of this the idea was not brookable to the old people. They consulted their heir-apparent, as well as some other friends, who proposed the settlement of some annuity in her favour if she would at once condescend on living with them for life.

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• unbrookable

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