different between brickle vs prickle

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??k?l/

Noun

prickle (plural prickles)

1. A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.

   • The plants that have prickles are, thorns, black and white, briar, rose, lemon-trees, […]

2. A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
3. A kind of willow basket.
   • Template:RQ:Jonson LP

     I'd but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle,
     To knock my nose against when I am nodding
4. (Britain, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.

Derived terms

• prickleback
• prickly

Translations

Verb

prickle (third-person singular simple present prickles, present participle prickling, simple past and past participle prickled)

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
   • 2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things (page 400)

     Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.

Translations

Anagrams

• pickler

German

Pronunciation

Verb

prickle

1. inflection of prickeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative