brickle
Plural: brickles
Adjective Satellite
- having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
- "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
Adj
- Alternative form of breakle.
Verb
- To fail spectacularly.
Adjective
- Brittle; easily broken.
Noun
- A type of brittle, hard candy.
Examples
- Finding a spot for BRICKLE on the Scrabble board felt like a sweet victory, earning many points.
- The word BRICKLE sounds sweet, but it’s a tough play to make.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 15
brickle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbrickle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brickle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 18
brickle: valid Words With Friends Word