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brickling

brickling is the present participle and gerund of brickle.

Meaning of brickle

Verb

brickle (third-person singular simple present brickles, present participle brickling, simple past and past participle brickled)

  1. (Canada, dialectal) To fail spectacularly.
    • How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN)

Questions about brickling

What is brickling the present participle and gerund of?
Brickling is the present participle and gerund of brickle.

Words near brickling in the dictionary

  1. bricklets
  2. Brickley
  3. Brickleys
  4. bricklike
  5. bricklined
  6. brickling
  7. bricklow
  8. brickly
  9. brickmaker
  10. brickmakers
  11. brickmaking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brickling (page history and authors); brickle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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