different between breakle vs breakly

English

Etymology

From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in h?sbrycel (“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.

Adjective

breakle (comparative more breakle, superlative most breakle)

1. (dialectal) Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

Related terms

• breakly
• brockly
• brickle
• bruckly

Anagrams

• bleaker

English

Etymology

From breakle +? -y and/or break +? -ly. Compare German zerbrechlich (“fragile”).

Adjective

breakly (comparative more breakly, superlative most breakly)

1. Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

Adverb

breakly (comparative more breakly, superlative most breakly)

1. In a breakly manner.
   • 2007, Vít Boj?anský, Agáta Fargašová, Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora:

     Surface longitudinal breakly furrowed, slight lustrous, orange-brown.

Anagrams

• Barkley