brickle

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

Derived terms

brickleness

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

Related terms

brickly