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Webster 1913 Edition

Brickle

Bric′kle

,
Adj.
[OE.
brekil
,
brokel
,
bruchel
, fr. AS.
brecan
, E.
break
. Cf.
Brittle
.]
Brittle; easily broken.
[Obs. or Prov.]
Spenser.
As stubborn steel excels the
brickle
glass.
Turbervile.

Webster 1828 Edition

Brickle

BRICKLE

,
Adj.
[from break.] Brittle; easily broken. [Not used.]

Definition 2024

brickle

brickle

English

Adjective

brickle

  1. (Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.

Verb

brickle ‎(third-person singular simple present brickles, present participle brickling, simple past and past participle brickled)

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

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.

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