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▪ I. bruckle, a. Chiefly Sc. and dial.|ˈbrʌk(ə)l|
Forms: 4 brukel, 5 brukyl, 5–6 -ill, 6 -il, brukkil, -yll, brukle, brucle, 6– bruckle.
[OE. brucol (in scipbrucol) f. stem bruk- of brekan to break (see also brockle): but in later use, perhaps phonetic variant of brickle: cf. Sc. muckle and mickle.]
1. Liable to break; fragile, brittle.
1513Douglas æneis xii. xii. 114 As brukkyll ice. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 64 a, Rootes..not brukle or easy to breke. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 219 Trusting vnto a piece of bruckle wood. a1721Kelly Sc. Prov. 113 (Jam.) Lasses and glasses are bruckle ware. 1858M. Porteous Souter Johnny 29 In bruckle stane and lime.
2. fig. Frail, uncertain, precarious, ‘shaky’.
c1325Metr. Hom 120 Noht of brukel blod and bane. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. xii. 1309 Yhe Devilys war noucht wroucht of brukyl kynd. 1509Fisher Wks. 91 What vessell may be more bruckle and frayle than is our body. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (Wodrow) III. 743 Founding them upon the bruckle authoritie of profane writers. 1814Scott Wav. lxvii, ‘My things are but in a bruckle state’. 1886Long I. Wight Dial. 8 Bruckle, brittle.
▪ II. † ˈbruckle, v. Obs. or dial.
[Related to Sc. bruik, to begrime (see brooked); prob. a frequentative: see -le.]
trans. To make dirty; to begrime.
Hence ˈbruckled ppl. a.
1648Herrick Hesper., Temple, Boyes and bruckel'd children. 1661L. Griffin Doctrine of Asse 7 We commonly say to Dirty Children that the Gardener will sow Leeks in their faces; we may more truly tell our Bruckled Professours that the Devill will sow Tares in their Souls. 1691Ray N.C. Words 11 Bruckle, to dirty. Bruckled, dirty. |