Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
brickle . - Apt to break through a field: said of cattle.
- noun Broken pieces; fragments; rubbish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of food odors:
malodorous ,flatulent ,pungent : smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide. - adjective Of animals:
variegated ,speckled , multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.
Etymologies
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Uncertain: possibly from Scots, Back-formation from broccoli.
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Examples
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When ye are come to your own land, Mr. Johnson, ye will find that brockle-faced stot there afore you; and I trust ye will comb him weel.
Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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"_George_ WASHINGTON PUGG; will you come and testify?" said the Squire with an emphasis on all the names, but rising and fairly hammering the last; when a greedy-eyed, brockle-faced, over-grown blade of seventeen opened up like a flax-brake, and loped forward over chairs and benches, responding in a houndish flat-and-treble voice, "_I_ reckon I'll
Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee
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