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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