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bruckle

bruckle adjective: frail, weak, fragile.

Adjective

bruckle (comparative more bruckle, superlative most bruckle)

  1. (dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
    • The beast of foot sings Holdfast only,
      For flesh is bruckle and foot is slee.
      Strength to the strong and the lordly and lonely,
      Timor Mortis Exultat Me.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

Forms of bruckle

comparativemore bruckle
superlativemost bruckle

Questions about bruckle

What does bruckle mean?
Bruckle means frail, weak, fragile.
What part of speech is bruckle?
Bruckle is an adjective.

Words near bruckle in the dictionary

  1. Brucker
  2. Bruckers
  3. Bruckheimer
  4. bruckies
  5. brucking
  6. bruckle
  7. Bruckless
  8. Bruckman
  9. Bruckmans
  10. Brucknell
  11. Bruckner

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