brickle

[ brik-uhl ]

/ ˈbrɪk əl /

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adjective Midland and Southern U.S.

easily broken; brittle.

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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

OTHER WORDS FROM brickle

brick·le·ness, noun

Words nearby brickle

brickie, bricking, brickkiln, bricklayer, bricklaying, brickle, brickmaking, Brickner's position, brick red, bricks and clicks, bricks and mortar

How to use brickle in a sentence

And that's what vexes me mair than a' the rest, when I think how I am to fend for ye now in thae brickle times.
Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated|Sir Walter Scott
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