Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Brittle; easily broken.
Wiktionary
- adj. Alternative form of breakle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Obs. or Prov. Brittle; easily broken.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
Etymologies
- From Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel ("easily broken or shattered"), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel ("burglarious", literally "house-breaking"), scipbrucol ("destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck", literally "ship-breaking"), equivalent to break + -le. See also breakle. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But then a rival donut chef opens a store around the corner, and the two chefs compete by making increasingly elaborate donuts with flavors like "cherry-frosted lemon bar, peanut-brickle buttermilk, and gooey coca - mocha silk.”
“Once brickle-ified, it must be trimmed and allowed to cool before Ms. Zeldin can flip it and coat it on both sides with a layer of chocolate and chopped macadamia nuts.”
The Wall Street Journal: Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
“She moved back to her hometown and turned a butter brickle recipe she created while taking a community college pastry class into a gourmet-food business.”
The Wall Street Journal: Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
“Her nascent brand, East Hampton Edibles, sells "butter brickle," a confection of crunchy caramel, chocolate and macadamia nuts available at local stores like Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton and the Elegant Setting in Southampton.”
The Wall Street Journal: Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
“As unusual as starting a butter-brickle business is for a financial executive, there is a precedent for growing boutique food businesses in the Hamptons.”
The Wall Street Journal: Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
“The brickle business needs to sell about 150 bags a week to break even, a goal she has hit only once so far.”
The Wall Street Journal: Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
“The tricky part of making brickle: After cooling the caramel, Anita Zeldin must quickly coat it on both sides with a layer of chocolate and chopped macadamia nuts.”
The Wall Street Journal: Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
“Peppermint buttons and white-chocolate-covered pretzel sticks and turtles and brickle and more delicious handmades line the table, and students are encouraged begged, even to partake.”
“We were greeted by a table filled with all sorts of goodies: sweet and sour chicken, cocktail meatballs, mandelbrot, Max's cookies named for Sam's mom -- they were her favorite, buttermilk kugel, and brickle cake.”
“Pour half of batter into bundt pan; sprinkle half of brickle mixture over it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brickle’.
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitstaffy, alcorza, chew, chocolate, confectionary, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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[Open] Frequentative
“A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as . . . waggle from wag.” — Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Other examples include bobble (bob), bustle (b...dartle, stutter, agitate, dabble, waggle, aid, argue, daunt, expect, excite, espouse, dictate and 77 more...
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samoritan's Words
moxie, zarf, crepuscular, serenity, halcyon, powerfuller, instant classic, abecedary, trilobite, doomsters, 'da bome, evanescence and 149 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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