Etymology

breaker

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Today it means: Something that breaks (something else). Full definition →

Middle English breker
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breaker · noun, interjection1

  1. Middle English · inherited frombreker
  2. English todaybreaker

From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.

breaker · noun2

  1. Spanish · borrowed frombarrica“barrel”
  2. English todaybreaker

Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.

Words from the same roots

Spanishbarrica all →

barrico

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