Brickle vs Prickle - What's the difference?
brickle | prickle |
(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
A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
A kind of willow basket.
(UK, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
To feel a prickle.
To cause someone to feel a prickle.
As verbs the difference between brickle and prickle
is that brickle is to fail spectacularly while prickle is to feel a prickle.As an adjective brickle
is alternative form of lang=en.As a noun prickle is
a small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.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.
prickle
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- (Ben Jonson)