brickle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɹɪkəl/
- Rhymes: -ɪkəl
Etymology 1
From Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel (“easily broken or shattered”), from Old English *bryċel, *brucol (as in hūsbryċel (“burglarious”, literally “house-breaking”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “ship-breaking”), equivalent to break + -le. See also breakle.
Adjective
brickle
- (Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- brickle clay
Etymology 2
From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.
Verb
brickle (third-person singular simple present brickles, present participle brickling, simple past and past participle brickled)
- (Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
- How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN
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