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English
Pronunciation
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
Derived terms
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
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