"brickle" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈbɹɪkəl/
Rhymes: -ɪkəl 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|brikel}} Middle English brikel, {{m|enm|brekil}} brekil, {{m|enm|brukel||easily broken or shattered}} brukel (“easily broken or shattered”), {{inh|en|ang|*bryċel}} Old English *bryċel, {{m|ang|*brucol}} *brucol, {{m|ang|hūsbryċel|lit=house-breaking|t=burglarious}} hūsbryċel (“burglarious”, literally “house-breaking”), {{m|ang|scipbrucol|lit=ship-breaking|t=destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck}} scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “ship-breaking”), {{suf|en|break|le}} break + -le, {{l|en|breakle}} breakle Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} brickle
  1. (Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: breakle
    Sense id: en-brickle-en-adj-UY19iRg4 Categories (other): Appalachian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -le Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈbɹɪkəl/ Forms: brickles [present, singular, third-person], brickling [participle, present], brickled [participle, past], brickled [past]
Rhymes: -ɪkəl Etymology: From the Bricklin, a failed automobile. Head templates: {{en-verb}} brickle (third-person singular simple present brickles, present participle brickling, simple past and past participle brickled)
  1. (Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly. Tags: Canada, dialectal Related terms: brickly, butter brickle
    Sense id: en-brickle-en-verb-3E5dQjeb Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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