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Brickbat
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- 1 A piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon (for example, thrown or placed in a sock or other receptacle and used as a club).
"[S]he sēt [sent] a brick back after him & hit him on þᵉ back, […]"
- 2 blunt criticism wordnet
- 3 A piece of (sharp) criticism or a (highly) uncomplimentary remark. figuratively
"I beſeech ye friends, ere the brickbats flye, reſolve me and your ſelves, is it blasphemy, or any vvhit diſagreeing from Chriſtian meekneſſe, […] for me to anſvver a ſlovenly vvincer of a confutation, that, if he vvould needs put his foot to ſuch a ſvveaty ſervice, the odour of his Sock vvas like to be neither Musk, nor Benjamin?"
- 4 a fragment of brick used as a weapon wordnet
- 1 To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun noun sense 1). transitive
"We had two boys arrested, both colored, for brick-batting a colored woman in her house. They were sent to the chaingang for 12 months each."
- 2 To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism. figuratively, transitive
Etymology
The noun is derived from brick + bat (“a bit, piece; specifically, part of a brick with one whole end”). The verb is derived from the noun.
The noun is derived from brick + bat (“a bit, piece; specifically, part of a brick with one whole end”). The verb is derived from the noun.
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