brickle

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.

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.

Synonyms

brickly, brittle

Scrabble Score: 15

brickle is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
brickle is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brickle is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

brickle is a valid Words With Friends word