Unscramble

b 3 r 1 i 1 c 3 k 5 l 1 e 1

7 letters · 15 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adjective having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

originFrom Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel (“easily broken or shattered”), from Old English *bryċel, *brucol (as in hūsbryċel (“burglarious”, literally “house-breaking”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “ship-breaking”), equivalent to break + -le. See also breakle.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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