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Breakle vs Breakly - What's the difference?

breakle | breakly |

As adjectives the difference between breakle and breakly

is that breakle is (dialectal) apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle while breakly is apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

As an adverb breakly is

in a breakly manner.

breakle

English

Adjective

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

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    breakly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
  • * 1842 , Edmund Ruffin, Farmers' register :
    • Our ash is not tough and hard like that, but has an open grain, and is among the most brash or breakly of our timbers.
  • * 1889 , Charles Lotin Hildreth, The mysterious city of Oo: adventures in Orbello Land :
    • Daylight was breakly dimly through wild-looking clouds upon a world of tumultuous waters.
  • * 1893 , Bessie Chandler, A woman who failed: and others :
    • "I never thought I 'd say what I 'm going to," she said at last; "it seems indecent; but I can't have you sitting around this way, acting as if I was a piece of cracked chiny that you'd got to handle mighty gingerly or it would drop all to pieces. I ain't so breakly . [...]"

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a breakly manner.
  • * 2007 , Vít Boj?anský, Agáta Fargašová, Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora :
    • Surface longitudinal breakly furrowed, slight lustrous, orange-brown.