brickle

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel (“easily broken or shattered”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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. (Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.

Verb

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  1. (Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
    • How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN

See also

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