brickle

• Rhymes: -ɪkəl

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

brickle

1. (Appalachia or archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of breakle

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.

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

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

• brickly

• butter brickle