Brickle

From Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel ("easily broken or shattered"), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel ("burglarious", literally house-breaking), scipbrucol ("destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck", literally ship-breaking), equivalent to break + -le. See also breakle.

Adjective

adjective

1. (Appalachian or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle

From , a failed automobile

Verb

verb

1. (Canadian English, dialect) To fail spectacularly
• How to Brickle The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977) ISBN 0-9690732-0-8Coined by Jim Lotz of The Atlantic Cooperator.

Related terms

• brickly