bruckleadj.

Brit.

/ˈbrʌk(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈbrək(ə)l/, Scottish English

/ˈbrʌk(ə)l/, Irish English

/ˈbrʌk(ə)l/

Forms: Old English brucol, Old English brucul, Middle English brukel (northern), 1500s brucle, 1500s brukle, 1500s– bruckle; also Scottish pre-1700 broukyll, pre-1700 bruckill, pre-1700 bruikle, pre-1700 brukil, pre-1700 brukill, pre-1700 brukkil, pre-1700 brukkill, pre-1700 brukkyll, pre-1700 brukyl, 1700s bruckl, 1700s brukyll; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– pruckle.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: < an ablaut variant (zero-grade) of the Germanic base of break v. + the Germanic base of -le suffix (compare -le suffix 1). A by-form with i-mutation is shown by Old English brycel (see brickle adj.). Compare Dutch †breukel weak, frail, fragile, brittle (early 16th cent.; 1599 in Kiliaan, who records it as an old word for ‘fragile’, as †brokel ), Middle Low German brokel liable to fail or falter, and also (with different semantic development) West Frisian brûkil moody, sulky, brusque. Compare brockle adj., and also brockle n.Old English brucol is attested as the second element in a group of adjectival formations (all in isolated attestations from the same source); alongside the two compound adjectives with noun as first element exemplified at sense 1, there is also attested the prefixed form anbrucol rugged, steep (compare on- prefix):OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 111 Praeruptam [in foueam] : anbrucolne. The modern regional distribution of the word in England is unusual. In addition to Scotland and northern Ireland, Eng. Dial. Dict. records it from northern counties (Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire) and from southern counties (Kent, Berkshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset), but not from the midlands or East Anglia.

Chiefly Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional.

†1. As the second element in Old English compounds: that breaks the thing specified by the first element. Cf. brickle adj. 1. Obsolete. ǣbrucol adj. sacrilegious (see e n.²). scipbrucol adj. causing shipwreck (see ship n.¹).

ΚΠ

OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 103 [Uim] Nauifragi [pertulerat noti] : scypbrucules.

OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 111 Sacrilegis [flatibus] : æbrucolon.

2. Liable to fail or falter; weak, frail; uncertain, precarious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective] > insecure, weak

lithy1377

brucklea1400

flickering1430

queasy1459

weaka1538

infirm1557

slender1562

crazed1600

unsinewed1604

ticklish1606

touchy1620

crazied1652

flicketing1674

shaky1841

shackling1846

wonky1919

a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Brokel Itt bihoues com of mi goddhede, And noht of brukel blod and bane, That I toc of the, wommane.

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 5308 Ȝhe dewillis was noucht wroucht Off brukyl kynde.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. iv. viii. f. 186 Yit sa lang as we leif in this present warld, we ar sa fragil & brukil, be resone of carnal concupiscence.

1583 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1840) II. 640 Founding them vpon the bruckle authoritie of profane wryters.

1620 Dialogue Cosmophilus & Theophilus 3 If the brasen serpent..was broken and abolished; much more their base and bruckle ceremonies, mans invention, should be.

1700 R. Wodrow Early Lett. (1937) 39 I am much affected to hear that the state of your health is soe bruckle.

1753 A. Nicol Rural Muse 28 Altho' my lines be bruckle, I'm yours to serve you.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xix. 286 My things are but in a bruckle state.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. viii. 96 We be bruckle folk here—the best o' us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill.

1908 H. J. White Homeland & Outland 66 Thy frail an' bruckle form.

1958 T. H. White Once & Future King iv. iii. 559 Since people who devote themselves to goddesses must exercise some caution about the ones to whom they are devoted, they neither chose them by the passing standards of the flesh alone, nor abandoned it lightly when the bruckle thing began to fail.

1999 J. Robertson Day O Judgement 27 Yer awfu rage is ill tae waste On sic as me, sae waff an bruckle.

2003 Educ., Culture & Sport Comatee, 2nd Rep. (Sc. Parl. Paper 778 (Scots)) 15 Gaelic, aye in a bruckle state, needs faur mair tae be done tae beild the leid.

3. Of a physical object or substance: hard but liable to break easily; brittle.

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

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xii. 114 As brukkyll ice.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 64 Rootes..not brukle or easy to breke.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 175 Trusting vnto a piece of bruckle wood.

a1614 J. Melville Black Bastel (1634) sig. A4^v My crown and solid scepter they haue reft me, And drest me up in bruckle glasse and reed.

1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. 47 The Rock is all plaistered over with a white bruckle Crust, of the same Colour, Consistence and Nature with the Shell of an Egg.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 113 Glasses and Lasses are bruckle Wares.

1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 784/2 Rax me that aik saplin'; ecod, there's mair fushion i' that than a bit bruckle steel.

1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 29 In bruckle stane and lime.

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down (at cited word) That's bruckle ware ye'r carryin.

1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. 74/1 Bruckle, bruckly, brittle. This is a south-western form for the same word.

1988 W. Neill Making Tracks 9 The Reverend Tumshie offert up a prayer, ower bruckle auncient banes set lair on lair.

1995 M. Longley Ghost Orchid 44 Phemios the poet..Lays the bruckle yoke between porringer and armchair.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bruckle
释义	bruckleadj. Brit. /ˈbrʌk(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈbrək(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈbrʌk(ə)l/, Irish English /ˈbrʌk(ə)l/ Forms: Old English brucol, Old English brucul, Middle English brukel (northern), 1500s brucle, 1500s brukle, 1500s– bruckle; also Scottish pre-1700 broukyll, pre-1700 bruckill, pre-1700 bruikle, pre-1700 brukil, pre-1700 brukill, pre-1700 brukkil, pre-1700 brukkill, pre-1700 brukkyll, pre-1700 brukyl, 1700s bruckl, 1700s brukyll; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– pruckle. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: < an ablaut variant (zero-grade) of the Germanic base of break v. + the Germanic base of -le suffix (compare -le suffix 1). A by-form with i-mutation is shown by Old English brycel (see brickle adj.). Compare Dutch †breukel weak, frail, fragile, brittle (early 16th cent.; 1599 in Kiliaan, who records it as an old word for ‘fragile’, as †brokel ), Middle Low German brokel liable to fail or falter, and also (with different semantic development) West Frisian brûkil moody, sulky, brusque. Compare brockle adj., and also brockle n.Old English brucol is attested as the second element in a group of adjectival formations (all in isolated attestations from the same source); alongside the two compound adjectives with noun as first element exemplified at sense 1, there is also attested the prefixed form anbrucol rugged, steep (compare on- prefix):OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 111 Praeruptam [in foueam] : anbrucolne. The modern regional distribution of the word in England is unusual. In addition to Scotland and northern Ireland, Eng. Dial. Dict. records it from northern counties (Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire) and from southern counties (Kent, Berkshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset), but not from the midlands or East Anglia. Chiefly Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional. †1. As the second element in Old English compounds: that breaks the thing specified by the first element. Cf. brickle adj. 1. Obsolete. ǣbrucol adj. sacrilegious (see e n.²). scipbrucol adj. causing shipwreck (see ship n.¹). ΚΠ OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 103 [Uim] Nauifragi [pertulerat noti] : scypbrucules. OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 111 Sacrilegis [flatibus] : æbrucolon. 2. Liable to fail or falter; weak, frail; uncertain, precarious. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective] > insecure, weak lithy1377 brucklea1400 flickering1430 queasy1459 weaka1538 infirm1557 slender1562 crazed1600 unsinewed1604 ticklish1606 touchy1620 crazied1652 flicketing1674 shaky1841 shackling1846 wonky1919 a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Brokel Itt bihoues com of mi goddhede, And noht of brukel blod and bane, That I toc of the, wommane. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 5308 Ȝhe dewillis was noucht wroucht Off brukyl kynde. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. iv. viii. f. 186 Yit sa lang as we leif in this present warld, we ar sa fragil & brukil, be resone of carnal concupiscence. 1583 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1840) II. 640 Founding them vpon the bruckle authoritie of profane wryters. 1620 Dialogue Cosmophilus & Theophilus 3 If the brasen serpent..was broken and abolished; much more their base and bruckle ceremonies, mans invention, should be. 1700 R. Wodrow Early Lett. (1937) 39 I am much affected to hear that the state of your health is soe bruckle. 1753 A. Nicol Rural Muse 28 Altho' my lines be bruckle, I'm yours to serve you. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xix. 286 My things are but in a bruckle state. View more context for this quotation 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. viii. 96 We be bruckle folk here—the best o' us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill. 1908 H. J. White Homeland & Outland 66 Thy frail an' bruckle form. 1958 T. H. White Once & Future King iv. iii. 559 Since people who devote themselves to goddesses must exercise some caution about the ones to whom they are devoted, they neither chose them by the passing standards of the flesh alone, nor abandoned it lightly when the bruckle thing began to fail. 1999 J. Robertson Day O Judgement 27 Yer awfu rage is ill tae waste On sic as me, sae waff an bruckle. 2003 Educ., Culture & Sport Comatee, 2nd Rep. (Sc. Parl. Paper 778 (Scots)) 15 Gaelic, aye in a bruckle state, needs faur mair tae be done tae beild the leid. 3. Of a physical object or substance: hard but liable to break easily; brittle. 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 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xii. 114 As brukkyll ice. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 64 Rootes..not brukle or easy to breke. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 175 Trusting vnto a piece of bruckle wood. a1614 J. Melville Black Bastel (1634) sig. A4^v My crown and solid scepter they haue reft me, And drest me up in bruckle glasse and reed. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. 47 The Rock is all plaistered over with a white bruckle Crust, of the same Colour, Consistence and Nature with the Shell of an Egg. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 113 Glasses and Lasses are bruckle Wares. 1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 784/2 Rax me that aik saplin'; ecod, there's mair fushion i' that than a bit bruckle steel. 1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 29 In bruckle stane and lime. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down (at cited word) That's bruckle ware ye'r carryin. 1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. 74/1 Bruckle, bruckly, brittle. This is a south-western form for the same word. 1988 W. Neill Making Tracks 9 The Reverend Tumshie offert up a prayer, ower bruckle auncient banes set lair on lair. 1995 M. Longley Ghost Orchid 44 Phemios the poet..Lays the bruckle yoke between porringer and armchair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † brucklev. Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bruckled adj. Etymology: Probably inferred < bruckled adj. English regional (northern). Obsolete. transitive. To make dirty or grimy. Cf. bruckled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > begrime grime1483 begrimlyc1485 begrimea1556 be-smut1610 smitch1626 crock1642 bruckle1691 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 11 Bruckle, to dirty. Bruckled, dirty. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Bruckle, to make dirty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.OEv.1691
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bruckleadj.

† brucklev.