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brickle

UK/ˈbɹɪkəl/ US/ˈbrɪkʌl/ uncommon archaic

adjective

1.

having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

  • “brittle bones”
  • “glass is brittle”
  • “brickle”
  • “brickly”
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Origin

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.

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