brickle

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/ˈbɹɪkəl/

verb

To fail spectacularly.

“How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN)”

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brittlebricklybreakable
OriginMiddle English brikel ← Old English *bryċel →
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Meanings

brickle1

adjective
  1. AppalachiaalternativearchaicdialectalAlternative form of breakle.

    brickle clay

    1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

brickle2

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

present singular third person brickles · participle present brickling · participle past brickled · past brickled

  1. CanadadialectalTo fail spectacularly.

    How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN)

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivehaving little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

Similar
brittlebricklybreakable
Also see
breakablebricklybrittle

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

brickle · adjective

  1. Old English*bryċel
  2. Middle Englishbrikel
  3. Englishbrickle

From Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel (“easily broken or shattered”), from Old English *bryċel, *brucol (as in hūsbryċel (“burglarious”, literally “house-breaking”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “ship-breaking”), equivalent to break + -le. See also breakle.

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brickle · verb

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with brickle

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

brickle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brickle

MLA

“brickle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brickle. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brickle,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brickle.

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