Frickle vs Brickle - What's the difference?
frickle | brickle |
(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
As a noun frickle
is (obsolete) a bushel basket.As an adjective brickle is
(appalachian|or|archaic|or|dialect).As a verb brickle is
(canadian english|dialect) 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.