brickle
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪkəl
Etymology 1
From Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel (“easily broken or shattered”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel (“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 dialectal) Alternative form of breakle
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
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, dialectal) To fail spectacularly.
- How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN
Related terms
- brickly
See also
- butter brickle