brick•le(brik′əl),USA pronunciationadj.[Midland and Southern U.S.]
Dialect Termseasily broken; brittle.
bef. 1000; Brit. dialect, dialectal, Scots; late Middle English bryckell, Old English -brycel tending to break, equivalent. to bryc- (mutated past participle stem of brecan to break) + -el adjective, adjectival suffix