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English
Adjective
bruckle (comparative more bruckle, superlative most bruckle)
- (dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
1958, T H White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):The beast of foot sings Holdfast only,
For flesh is bruckle and foot is slee.
Strength to the strong and the lordly and lonely,
Timor Mortis Exultat Me.
Scots
Pronunciation
Adjective
bruckle (comparative mair bruckle, superlative maist bruckle)
- (archaic) Brittle, easily broken.
- (poetic) Unstable, uncertain, unsettled.