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brickle¹

  • /ˈbɹɪkəl/

Rhymes with -ɪkəl

Where it comes from

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.

adjective

  1. Appalachia, alternative, archaic, dialectal Alternative form of breakle brickle clay

brickle²

  • /ˈbɹɪkəl/

Rhymes with -ɪkəl

Where it comes from

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.

verb brickles · brickling · brickled

  1. Canada, dialectal To fail spectacularly. How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN)

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@misc{brickle_2026,
  title = {brickle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brickle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}