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brickle

American  
[brik-uhl] / ˈbrɪk əl /

adjective

Midland and Southern U.S.

  1. easily broken; brittle.

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

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