breakle

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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13
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15
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7

Definition of breakle

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (dialectal)Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
    “At "Blackhead" — "Here is a breakle black touche stone under other rough stone."”

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Etymology

From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel (“burglarious”, literally “tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"”),…

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From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel (“burglarious”, literally “tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “tending to break ships or shipping down, i.e. "ship-breakative"”)), from Proto-Germanic *brukilaz, *brukulaz (“liable or tending to break”), extended form of Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breakable”), equivalent to break + -le. Compare brittle.

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