Definition of Brickie

1. Noun. (British New Zealand slang) A bricklayer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brickie

1. a bricklayer [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brickie

brickbats
brickdust deposit
bricked
bricked up
bricken
bricker
brickers
brickety
brickfield
brickfielder
brickfields
brickfilm
brickfilmed
brickfilming
brickfilms
brickie (current term)
brickier
brickies
brickiest
bricking
bricking up
brickings
brickish
brickkiln
brickkilns
bricklayer
bricklayer's hammer
bricklayers
bricklaying
bricklayings

Literary usage of Brickie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by William Aldis Wright, Jonathan Eastwood (1884)
"(Wisd. xv. 13). The old form of 'brittle' in the ed. of 1611. Fraile: brickie: soone broken. Fragilis. brickie glass was quickly dashed a sunder. ..."

2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"brickie, fragile, easily broken ; ' brickie vessels ', BIBLE (AV.), Wisdom, xv. 13 ; 'brickie, fragilis', Levins, Manip. ; Spenser, Ruins of Time, 499; ..."

3. The Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser (1862)
"TODD. h built of brickie clay.~\ So the poet's own edition reads. The reft ive altered it to brittle. But I conceive brickie to be the word intended I? ..."

4. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Wordbook, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"340-1, says that 'of all oke growing in England, the parke oke is the softest, and far more spalt and brickie than the ... Vocab. we find ' brickie, ..."

5. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"We have had brickie weather of late." (SS Haldeman.) Brit dies is the almost universal pronunciation of breeches among the mass of the people. ..."

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