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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread work brickle #93128 01/23/2003 6:17 PM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 24 beanie stranger beanie stranger Joined: May 2000 Posts: 24 When my father felt someone was lazy, he'd say they weren't "work brickle." Has anyone else ever heard this expression, and if so, what is its derivation? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: brickle #93129 01/23/2003 6:34 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Etymology: Middle English brekyl, brickyll, brukyl fragile, weak, brittle, probably from Old English -brucol (as in [AE]brucol sacrilegious, onbrucol rugged, scipbrucol causing shipwreck), from brecan to break -- more at BREAK dialect : BRITTLE ©W3 so, work brittle: think Maynard G. Krebs (work!!) but is this just opposite of your father's usage? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: work brickle #93130 01/23/2003 6:40 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky That makes sense, beanie--think of butter brickle! And welcome aBoard! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: work brickle beanie #212349 08/31/2013 2:48 AM Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 1 chigger stranger chigger stranger Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 1 I just found this site when looking up a term used by a friend of a friend years ago, "brigglin". When asked what he was doing, he would say, "Just brigglin." The one who used it is dead, so there is no way to verify the meaning, as used by him, and my friend thought it might be from the French word "bricoler", which means "to putter", or to not work very hard. Could it have traveled up the Mississippi from French Louisiana to the state of Iowa? My friend is going to ask the deceased friend's wife what his ethnicity was. Last edited by chigger; 08/31/2013 2:55 AM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: work brickle chigger #212350 08/31/2013 5:40 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass this is probly just some sort of coincidence, but there was a style of pottery called Briglin; thus Briglin pottering. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: work brickle beanie #212677 10/01/2013 7:48 AM Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 5 winwalk stranger winwalk stranger Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 5 That makes sense Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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