brickle

[ brik-uh l ]

/ ˈbrɪk əl /

adjective Midland and Southern U.S.

easily broken; brittle.

Nearby words

brickie, bricking, brickkiln, bricklayer, bricklaying, brickle, brickmaking, brickner's position, bricks and clicks, bricks and mortar, bricks shy of a load

Origin of brickle

before 1000; British dial., Scots; late Middle English bryckell, Old English -brycel tending to break, equivalent to bryc- (mutated past participle stem of brecan to break) + -el adj. suffix

Related forms

brick·le·ness, noun

Examples from the Web for brickle

Of all oke growing in England the parke oke is the softest, and far more spalt and brickle than the hedge oke.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine|Raphaell Holinshed