Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as brickle.
- Apt to break through a field: said of cattle.
- n. Broken pieces; fragments; rubbish.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.
- adj. Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.
Etymologies
- Uncertain: possibly from Scots, Back-formation from broccoli. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When ye are come to your own land, Mr. Johnson, ye will find that brockle-faced stot there afore you; and I trust ye will comb him weel.”
“_George_ WASHINGTON PUGG; will you come and testify?" said the Squire with an emphasis on all the names, but rising and fairly hammering the last; when a greedy-eyed, brockle-faced, over-grown blade of seventeen opened up like a flax-brake, and loped forward over chairs and benches, responding in a houndish flat-and-treble voice, "_I_ reckon I'll”
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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