different between breakie vs breakle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

breakie (plural breakies)

1. Alternative spelling of brekkie

Citations

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Anagrams

• beakier

English

Etymology

From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in h?sbrycel (“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.

Adjective

breakle (comparative more breakle, superlative most breakle)

1. (dialectal) Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

Related terms

• breakly
• brockly
• brickle
• bruckly

Anagrams

• bleaker