brickleadj.

Brit.

/ˈbrɪkl/, U.S.

/ˈbrɪk(ə)l/

Forms:

α. early Old English brycil, early Middle English bruchel, early Middle English bruchele, Middle English brechel, Middle English bruchull; English regional (northern and midlands) 1600s brichol, 1700s–1900s britchel, 1800s britchil.

β. late Middle English brekyl, late Middle English brekyll, late Middle English brykell, late Middle English–1500s bryckell, 1500s brickell, 1500s bricle, 1500s bryckel, 1500s bryckle, 1500s brykle, 1500s–1600s brickel, 1500s– brickle, 1600s brickill.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: < a variant (with i-mutation) of the Germanic base of bruckle adj.; in later use probably reinforced by association with break v. and also with (etymologically unrelated) brittle adj. Compare bruckle adj. and brockle adj.In α. forms showing palatalization and assibilation of the original velar plosive /k/ (compare the discussion at bruche n.¹); the β. forms show either failure of this process (especially characteristic of northern and eastern dialects) or the analogical influence of bruckle adj. and break v. With sense 1 compare Old Saxon hūsbrukil , probably in sense ‘liable to engage in housebreaking’ (also in an isolated attestation translating post-classical Latin effractabilis , only recorded in glosses), and, with a different first element, Old Saxon stēnbrukil , early Middle High German stainbrukil , steinbruchel , both nouns in the sense ‘stonemason’, lit. ‘stone-breaker’. Compare also apparent use of the Old English adjective as noun in hūsbrycel housebreaker, burglar, and compare further Old English hūsbryce burglary (see housebreach n.).

†1. As the second element in an Old English compound: that breaks the thing specified by the first element. Obsolete.Only attested in house-brickle adj. (probably) liable to engage in housebreaking.

ΚΠ

eOE Erfurt Gloss. in W. M. Lindsay Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt & Leyden Glossaries (1921) 83 Effractabilis, husbrycil.

2. Liable to break easily; fragile, brittle; crisp. In later use English regional (northern) and North American regional. Cf. brockle adj., bruckle adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile

bricklec1225

froughc1275

brisel1303

brocklec1315

brittlea1382

fraila1382

brotelc1384

frangiblec1440

frushing1488

bruckle1513

brash1566

breakable1570

weak1581

glassya1591

brake1600

frushy1610

fragilea1616

kexy1641

brickly1670

cracky1725

fractile1727

frush1802

slattery1829

crackable1862

snappable1866

smashable1884

spaulty1895

α.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 925 To cleouen bursten ant to breken as þah hit were bruchel gles, ba þe treon & te irn.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 128 Þis bruchele fetles is bruchel as is ani gles [c1230 Corpus Cambr. bruchel as is eani gles, a1250 Nero is bruchelure þene beo eni gles].

a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 166 Yse..is watyr congelut hard and bruchull.

?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. Gloss. Britchel, apt to break.

?1857 J. Scholes Tim Gamwattle's Jawnt ix. 47 Us britchel us egg shells.

1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 56 Brickle, britchel, fragile, brittle.

β. 1468 Medulla Gram. (St. John's Cambr.) in S. J. H. Herrtage & H. B. Wheatley Catholicon Anglicum (1881) 44 (note) Fracticeus, brekyl. Fragilis, freel or brekyl.?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxxiiii^v The houe before wyll be thycker and more bryckle.a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1398/2 As a brickell earthen pot in pieces al to frush them.1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 499 Th' Altare..Was built of brickle clay.1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xv. 13 This man that of earthly matter maketh brickle vessels. a1621 W. Strachey True Reportory Wracke Sir T. Gates in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) IV. ii. 308 Cedar..is so spault or brickle, that it will make no good plankes.1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 54 Many Bricks are brickle.1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. E2^v Where it lies in a Body of considerable thickness, it is more Brickle and Joynty.1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 56 Brickle, britchel, fragile, brittle.1953 V. Randolph & G. P. Wilson Down in Holler 230 If cowcumber pickles ain't brickle, they ain't fit to eat.1972 J. B. McClendon Bone & Striffen i. 8 This fly brush is gittin brickle from the unusual dry weather.2009 M. Gregory Shaped by Stories (e-book ed.) You sinners who don't repent at this altar tonight are like spiders that God is dangling over the yawning pit of hell by a brickle thread of life!

†3. figurative. Frail, weak, easily destroyed; transitory, vain. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective]

idlec825

unnuteOE

bricklec1225

tooma1250

unnaita1250

vaina1300

waste1303

overvoida1382

voida1382

superfluec1384

daylessa1387

unbehovely1390

unprofitablea1398

unbehoveful1429

wastefulc1450

idleful1483

fruster1488

vainful1509

frustrate?a1513

superfluousa1533

addle1534

lost1535

fittle1552

futilea1575

nugatory1605

futilous1607

shiftless1613

tympanous1625

emptya1628

frustraneousa1643

pointless1673

futilitous1765

otiose1795

stultificatory1931

c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 511 Ure cunde..is bruchel, ant dedlich.

?a1450 in H. Sandison Chanson d'Aventure in Middle Eng. (1913) 124 (MED) O brykell worlde..Thow provokest man to folowe sensualyte..Thow byddest hym folowe plesure.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxiiiii. f. cxxxiiii This transetory, and bryckell lyfe.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. C.vi^v Man is bryckell.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms lxxxix. 10 (Annot.) Mans life as brickle as a spiders web.

1667 G. Fox Epist. to Friends 4 If that your Goods and Children should be after the same manner taken away..you would be found in a troubled brickle state, far below Job.

†4. figurative. Delicate; tricky, requiring cautious handling. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or delicate

fine-fingered1549

brickle1568

kittle1568

tickle1569

delicate1574

trickle1579

chary1581

ticklesome1585

ticklish1591

jealous1600

tender1625

nicea1630

thorny1653

parlous1657

tricksy1835

niggling1851

tricky1868

catchy1874

pernickety1884

trickish1900

fiddly1926

footery1929

1568 Duke of Norfolk Let. Oct. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) App. 28 You may see howe farre..I wade in this most brykle cace.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 157 How I am to fend for you now in thae brickle times.

5. figurative. Changeable, fickle. Now rare (U.S. regional in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

windyc1000

unsteadfastc1200

fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

unstablec1340

varyingc1340

variantc1374

motleyc1380

ungroundedc1380

muablea1393

passiblea1393

remuablea1393

changeablea1398

movablea1398

variablec1397

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mutable?a1425

movingc1425

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transmutablec1430

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brittlea1450

ficklea1450

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unfirmc1450

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unsteadfast1483

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alterable?1531

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slippery1548

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slid?1553

mutala1561

rolling1561

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unconstant1568

interchangeable1574

fluctuant1575

stayless1575

transitive1575

voluble1575

changeling1577

queasy1579

desultory1581

huff-puff1582

unstaid1586

vagrant1586

changeful1590

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Protean1594

unstayed1594

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anchorless1597

mobilec1600

ticklish1601

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insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

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choppy1865

variative1874

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wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

1768 C. Varlo Mod. Farmers Guide II. xxxiii. 300 A man's wits should always be about him, to catch all opportunities in brickle weather, and so should he be always provided, for fear of the worst.

1792 R. Galloway Poems (ed. 2) 270 They are fae crabit and fae fickle, Indeed their friendship is but brickle.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 586 We have had brickle weather of late.

1930 H. W. Shoemaker 1300 Old Time Words Brickle, changeable, uncertain. ‘Maids is brickle.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	brickle
释义	bricklen. Brit. /ˈbrɪkl/, U.S. /ˈbrɪk(ə)l/ Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: brickle adj. Etymology: Apparently < brickle adj. Compare earlier brittle n. North American. A type of hard, brittle toffee, often containing nuts. Frequently with modifying word, as butter brickle, peanut brickle, etc. Cf. brittle n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee taffy1817 Everton toffee1822 toffeea1825 hardbake1825 stickjaw1827 tom trot1829 tameletjie1838 butterscotch1847 peanut candy1856 caramel1884 treacle toffee1885 Harrogate toffee1890 brittle1892 peanut brittle1892 saltwater taffy1894 brickle1907 spin1913 hokey-pokey1939 1907 Kokomo (Indiana) Daily Tribune 19 Dec. (4 o'clock ed.) 3/1 (advt.) Gum Drops.., Peanut Brickle, Wrapped Caramels... These are a few of the many kinds of Candies that we have. 1954 R. Berolzheimer et al. Candy Bk. 38/2 Butter brickle. 1¼ cups butter, 2¼ cups sugar, 1 tablespoon salt, ½ cup water, ¼ pound unblanched almonds, 1 teaspoon soda, ¼ blanched roasted almonds, ½ pound English walnuts, ¼ pound milk chocolate. 1987 New Braunfels (Texas) Herald-Zeitung 25 Nov. 3 b/2 Layer chocolate pieces, almond brickle pieces, coconut and nuts on top of graham cracker layer. 2004 Living Spirit Dec. 74 Do not fold the brickle into ice cream during the freezing process. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brickleadj. Brit. /ˈbrɪkl/, U.S. /ˈbrɪk(ə)l/ Forms: α. early Old English brycil, early Middle English bruchel, early Middle English bruchele, Middle English brechel, Middle English bruchull; English regional (northern and midlands) 1600s brichol, 1700s–1900s britchel, 1800s britchil. β. late Middle English brekyl, late Middle English brekyll, late Middle English brykell, late Middle English–1500s bryckell, 1500s brickell, 1500s bricle, 1500s bryckel, 1500s bryckle, 1500s brykle, 1500s–1600s brickel, 1500s– brickle, 1600s brickill. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: < a variant (with i-mutation) of the Germanic base of bruckle adj.; in later use probably reinforced by association with break v. and also with (etymologically unrelated) brittle adj. Compare bruckle adj. and brockle adj.In α. forms showing palatalization and assibilation of the original velar plosive /k/ (compare the discussion at bruche n.¹); the β. forms show either failure of this process (especially characteristic of northern and eastern dialects) or the analogical influence of bruckle adj. and break v. With sense 1 compare Old Saxon hūsbrukil , probably in sense ‘liable to engage in housebreaking’ (also in an isolated attestation translating post-classical Latin effractabilis , only recorded in glosses), and, with a different first element, Old Saxon stēnbrukil , early Middle High German stainbrukil , steinbruchel , both nouns in the sense ‘stonemason’, lit. ‘stone-breaker’. Compare also apparent use of the Old English adjective as noun in hūsbrycel housebreaker, burglar, and compare further Old English hūsbryce burglary (see housebreach n.). †1. As the second element in an Old English compound: that breaks the thing specified by the first element. Obsolete.Only attested in house-brickle adj. (probably) liable to engage in housebreaking. ΚΠ eOE Erfurt Gloss. in W. M. Lindsay Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt & Leyden Glossaries (1921) 83 Effractabilis, husbrycil. 2. Liable to break easily; fragile, brittle; crisp. In later use English regional (northern) and North American regional. Cf. brockle adj., bruckle adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile bricklec1225 froughc1275 brisel1303 brocklec1315 brittlea1382 fraila1382 brotelc1384 frangiblec1440 frushing1488 bruckle1513 brash1566 breakable1570 weak1581 glassya1591 brake1600 frushy1610 fragilea1616 kexy1641 brickly1670 cracky1725 fractile1727 frush1802 slattery1829 crackable1862 snappable1866 smashable1884 spaulty1895 α. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 925 To cleouen bursten ant to breken as þah hit were bruchel gles, ba þe treon & te irn. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 128 Þis bruchele fetles is bruchel as is ani gles [c1230 Corpus Cambr. bruchel as is eani gles, a1250 Nero is bruchelure þene beo eni gles]. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 166 Yse..is watyr congelut hard and bruchull. ?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. Gloss. Britchel, apt to break. ?1857 J. Scholes Tim Gamwattle's Jawnt ix. 47 Us britchel us egg shells. 1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 56 Brickle, britchel, fragile, brittle. β. 1468 Medulla Gram. (St. John's Cambr.) in S. J. H. Herrtage & H. B. Wheatley Catholicon Anglicum (1881) 44 (note) Fracticeus, brekyl. Fragilis, freel or brekyl.?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxxiiii^v The houe before wyll be thycker and more bryckle.a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1398/2 As a brickell earthen pot in pieces al to frush them.1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 499 Th' Altare..Was built of brickle clay.1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xv. 13 This man that of earthly matter maketh brickle vessels. View more context for this quotationa1621 W. Strachey True Reportory Wracke Sir T. Gates in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) IV. ii. 308 Cedar..is so spault or brickle, that it will make no good plankes.1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 54 Many Bricks are brickle.1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. E2^v Where it lies in a Body of considerable thickness, it is more Brickle and Joynty.1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 56 Brickle, britchel, fragile, brittle.1953 V. Randolph & G. P. Wilson Down in Holler 230 If cowcumber pickles ain't brickle, they ain't fit to eat.1972 J. B. McClendon Bone & Striffen i. 8 This fly brush is gittin brickle from the unusual dry weather.2009 M. Gregory Shaped by Stories (e-book ed.) You sinners who don't repent at this altar tonight are like spiders that God is dangling over the yawning pit of hell by a brickle thread of life! †3. figurative. Frail, weak, easily destroyed; transitory, vain. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] idlec825 unnuteOE bricklec1225 tooma1250 unnaita1250 vaina1300 waste1303 overvoida1382 voida1382 superfluec1384 daylessa1387 unbehovely1390 unprofitablea1398 unbehoveful1429 wastefulc1450 idleful1483 fruster1488 vainful1509 frustrate?a1513 superfluousa1533 addle1534 lost1535 fittle1552 futilea1575 nugatory1605 futilous1607 shiftless1613 tympanous1625 emptya1628 frustraneousa1643 pointless1673 futilitous1765 otiose1795 stultificatory1931 c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 511 Ure cunde..is bruchel, ant dedlich. ?a1450 in H. Sandison Chanson d'Aventure in Middle Eng. (1913) 124 (MED) O brykell worlde..Thow provokest man to folowe sensualyte..Thow byddest hym folowe plesure. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxiiiii. f. cxxxiiii This transetory, and bryckell lyfe. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. C.vi^v Man is bryckell. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms lxxxix. 10 (Annot.) Mans life as brickle as a spiders web. 1667 G. Fox Epist. to Friends 4 If that your Goods and Children should be after the same manner taken away..you would be found in a troubled brickle state, far below Job. †4. figurative. Delicate; tricky, requiring cautious handling. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or delicate fine-fingered1549 brickle1568 kittle1568 tickle1569 delicate1574 trickle1579 chary1581 ticklesome1585 ticklish1591 jealous1600 tender1625 nicea1630 thorny1653 parlous1657 tricksy1835 niggling1851 tricky1868 catchy1874 pernickety1884 trickish1900 fiddly1926 footery1929 1568 Duke of Norfolk Let. Oct. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) App. 28 You may see howe farre..I wade in this most brykle cace. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 157 How I am to fend for you now in thae brickle times. 5. figurative. Changeable, fickle. Now rare (U.S. regional in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 1768 C. Varlo Mod. Farmers Guide II. xxxiii. 300 A man's wits should always be about him, to catch all opportunities in brickle weather, and so should he be always provided, for fear of the worst. 1792 R. Galloway Poems (ed. 2) 270 They are fae crabit and fae fickle, Indeed their friendship is but brickle. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 586 We have had brickle weather of late. 1930 H. W. Shoemaker 1300 Old Time Words Brickle, changeable, uncertain. ‘Maids is brickle.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1907adj.eOE
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bricklen.

brickleadj.