9 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
noun a fragment of brick used as a weapon
noun blunt criticism
originFrom brickbat + -s. The plural only sense (“small rocky particles moving as a group in space”) was coined by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and is used chiefly in reference to his writings.
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