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brickle

/ˈbɹɪkəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.32 in modern English

Syllables
brick-le
IPA
/ˈbɹɪkəl/
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of breakle.

Archaic

verb

To fail spectacularly.

Canadian usage

Example Sentences

Etymology

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

brickles (present, singular) brickling (participle, present) brickled (participle, past) brickled (past)

Derived Forms

brickleness

Phrases

butter brickle

Frequently Paired Words

brickly butter brickle

Synonyms

brittle brickly

Rhymes With

nickel pickle trickle tickle sickle fickle mikel nicol brickell nicoll nicholl nickle

Questions

How do you pronounce brickle?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɹɪkəl/.
What does brickle mean?
Alternative form of breakle.
Where does brickle come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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