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brickbat

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɹɪkbæt/Part of speech nounSorted abbcikrtStarts with BEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. blunt criticism

Word origin

The noun is derived from brick + bat (“a bit, piece; specifically, part of a brick with one whole end”). The verb is derived from the noun.

Used in a sentence

  • [S]he sēt [sent] a brick back after him & hit him on þᵉ back, […]
  • [Y]ᵉ body of King Charles the First was privately putt into the Sand about White-hall; and the coffin that was carried to Windsor and layd in K. Hen[ry] 8^(th's) vault was filled with rubbish, or brick-batts.
  • Fragments of glass kept company with the dust on the floor, together with a choice collection of stones, brickbats, and other missiles,—which not improbably were the cause of their being there.

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