Brickle vs Brockle - What's the difference?
brickle | brockle |
(Appalachian, or, archaic, or, dialect)
(Canadian English, dialect) To fail spectacularly
* How to Brickle The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977) ISBN 0-9690732-0-8
Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.
Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced .
As adjectives the difference between brickle and brockle
is that brickle is alternative form of lang=en while brockle is of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.As a verb brickle
is to fail spectacularly.brickle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) brikel, brekil, .Adjective
(head)- (Spenser)
Etymology 2
From , a failed automobileVerb
(head)- Coined by Jim Lotz of The Atlantic Cooperator.