• Breakle

    Origin

    From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel ("easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile"), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel ("burglarious", literally tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"), scipbrucol ("destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck", literally tending to break ships or shipping down, i.e. "ship-breakative")), from Proto-Germanic *brukilaz, *brukulaz ("liable or tending to break"), extended form of Proto-Germanic *brukiz ("breakable"), equivalent to break + -le. Compare brittle.

    Full definition of breakle

    Adjective

    breakle

    1. (dialectal) Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
      • 1855, Ulster Archaeological Society, Ulster journal of archaeology:At "Blackhead" — "Here is a breakle black touche stone under other rough stone."
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