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breakle

breakle adjective: apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

Adjective

breakle (comparative more breakle, superlative most breakle)

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

Forms of breakle

comparativemore breakle
superlativemost breakle

Origin of breakle

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.

Questions about breakle

What does breakle mean?
Breakle means apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
What part of speech is breakle?
Breakle is an adjective.

Words near breakle in the dictionary

  1. breaking wind
  2. breaking with
  3. breaking with tradition
  4. breakingly
  5. breakings
  6. breakle
  7. breakless
  8. breakline
  9. breakly
  10. breakman
  11. breakneck

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