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breakle

breakle

English

Adjective

breakle ‎(comparative breakler or more breakle, superlative breaklest or most breakle)

  1. (dialectal) Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
    • 1855, Ulster Archaeological Society, Ulster journal of archaeology:
      At "Blackhead" — "Here is a breakle black touche stone under other rough stone."

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Etymology

From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel ‎(“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel ‎(“burglarious”, literally “tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"”), scipbrucol ‎(“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “tending to break ships or shipping down, i.e. "ship-breakative"”)), from Proto-Germanic *brukilaz, *brukulaz ‎(“liable or tending to break”), extended form of Proto-Germanic *brukiz ‎(“breakable”), equivalent to break +‎ -le. Compare brittle.

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