brickle

English

Etymology

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.

Adjective

brickle

1. (Appalachian or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle.

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Etymology

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile

Verb

brickle

1. (Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly
   • How to Brickle The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977) ISBN 0-9690732-0-8

     Coined by Jim Lotz of The Atlantic Cooperator.

Related terms

• brickly