Brickle definition

brikəl
(dial.) Brittle.
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(Appalachian or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle.

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(Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
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Origin of brickle

  • 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.

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  • From the Bricklin, a failed automobile

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