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Brickle

//ˈbɹɪkəl// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of breakle. Appalachia, alt-of, alternative, archaic, dialectal

    "brickle clay"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To fail spectacularly. Canada, dialectal

    "How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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 2

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.

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