Breakly vs Breaky - What's the difference?
breakly | breaky |
Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
* 1842 , Edmund Ruffin, Farmers' register :
* 1889 , Charles Lotin Hildreth, The mysterious city of Oo: adventures in Orbello Land :
* 1893 , Bessie Chandler, A woman who failed: and others :
In a breakly manner.
* 2007 , Vít Boj?anský, Agáta Fargašová, Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora :
As adjectives the difference between breakly and breaky
is that breakly is apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle while breaky is indicative of breaking; easily broken.As an adverb breakly
is in a breakly manner.breakly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Daylight was breakly dimly through wild-looking clouds upon a world of tumultuous waters.
- "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)- Surface longitudinal breakly furrowed, slight lustrous, orange-brown.