brickle

American  

[brik-uhl] / ˈbrɪk əl /

adjective

Midland and Southern U.S.

1. easily broken; brittle.

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Other Word Forms

• brickleness noun

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

President Clinton presented her with a cake covered in butter brickle frosting.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Leave out a bowl of Mary Janes, though, and you’ll have a whole group of folks searching Monster.com before you can say butter brickle candy.

From Forbes • Nov. 3, 2014

They keep at least 4-6 flavors in the freezer: chocolate, vanilla, butter brickle, rocky road and others.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2014

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.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir

I knowe the brickle state, that fortune hath no staie, all rashe her giftes, Fortune blind doeth kepe no state, her stone doth roule, as floodes now flowe, floodes also ebbe.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard