bruckle

bruckle (comparative more bruckle, superlative most bruckle)

1. (dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

     The beast of foot sings Holdfast only,
     For flesh is bruckle and foot is slee.
     Strength to the strong and the lordly and lonely,
     Timor Mortis Exultat Me.

• brickle, brukkle, bruckl, brukkel

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrʌkl/, /ˈbrɪkl/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /ˈbruːkul/

bruckle (comparative mair bruckle, superlative maist bruckle)

1. (archaic) Brittle, easily broken.
2. (poetic) Unstable, uncertain, unsettled.