Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Brittle; easily broken.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or Prov. Brittle; easily broken.
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- adjective Alternative form of
breakle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
Etymologies
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Examples
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But then a rival donut chef opens a store around the corner, and the two chefs compete by making increasingly elaborate donuts with flavors like "cherry-frosted lemon bar, peanut-brickle buttermilk, and gooey coca - mocha silk."
Boing Boing 2009
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Once brickle-ified, it must be trimmed and allowed to cool before Ms. Zeldin can flip it and coat it on both sides with a layer of chocolate and chopped macadamia nuts.
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Her nascent brand, East Hampton Edibles, sells "butter brickle," a confection of crunchy caramel, chocolate and macadamia nuts available at local stores like Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton and the Elegant Setting in Southampton.
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As unusual as starting a butter-brickle business is for a financial executive, there is a precedent for growing boutique food businesses in the Hamptons.
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The brickle business needs to sell about 150 bags a week to break even, a goal she has hit only once so far.
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She moved back to her hometown and turned a butter brickle recipe she created while taking a community college pastry class into a gourmet-food business.
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The tricky part of making brickle: After cooling the caramel, Anita Zeldin must quickly coat it on both sides with a layer of chocolate and chopped macadamia nuts.
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Peppermint buttons and white-chocolate-covered pretzel sticks and turtles and brickle and more delicious handmades line the table, and students are encouraged begged, even to partake.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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Peppermint buttons and white-chocolate-covered pretzel sticks and turtles and brickle and more delicious handmades line the table, and students are encouraged begged, even to partake.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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We were greeted by a table filled with all sorts of goodies: sweet and sour chicken, cocktail meatballs, mandelbrot, Max's cookies named for Sam's mom -- they were her favorite, buttermilk kugel, and brickle cake.
Archive 2006-07-01 tannaz 2006
bilby commented on the word brickle
Fun word. Burglarious even.
February 1, 2016