different between brickle vs brockle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

brickle

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

Etymology 2

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.

Verb

brickle (third-person singular simple present brickles, present participle brickling, simple past and past participle brickled)

1. (Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
   • How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, ?ISBN

Related terms

• brickly

See also

• butter brickle

English

Etymology

Uncertain: possibly from Scots, Back-formation from broccoli.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?l
• IPA^(key): /b??k.?l/

Adjective

brockle (comparative more brockle, superlative most brockle)

1. Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.
2. Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.

Anagrams

• Blocker, blocker, reblock

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German bröckeln, Dutch brokkelen.

Verb

brockle

1. to crumble
2. to break