brickle
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
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 edit
From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.
Verb edit
brickle (third-person singular simple present brickles, present participle brickling, simple past and past participle brickled)