Dial. brittle
Origin of brickle
Middle English brikel, variant, variety of brokel, brittle from base of Old English brecan, to breakbrickle
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Adjective
- (Appalachian or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle.
Origin
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.
Verb
- (Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly
- brickly
Origin
From the Bricklin, a failed automobile
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