breakly
adjEtymology
From breakle + -y and/or break + -ly. Compare German zerbrechlich (“fragile”).
- derived from *brukiz✻
- derived from *brukilaz✻
- derived from *brycel✻
- inherited from brekil
Definitions
Apt to, capable of, or tending to break
Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
- Our ash is not tough and hard like that, but has an open grain, and is among the most brash or breakly of our timbers.
- Daylight was breakly dimly through wild-looking clouds upon a world of tumultuous waters.
In a breakly manner.
- Surface longitudinal breakly furrowed, slight lustrous, orange-brown.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA