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Definition of Brickbat
1. Noun. A fragment of brick used as a weapon.
2. Noun. Blunt criticism.
Definition of Brickbat
1. n. A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.
Definition of Brickbat
1. Noun. (obsolete) : A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club. ¹
2. Noun. A criticism or uncomplimentary remark hurled at artwork or other recipient. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brickbat
1. a piece of brick [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brickbat
Literary usage of Brickbat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Candle from Under the Bushel: (Luke Xi, 33) ; Or, Thirteen Hundred and by William Hart (1889)
"Should not the ears of this God of evil, wrath, and vengeance have been made to
tingle with a brickbat? 1.171. " I will put my hook in their nose, ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"JH Dyke, ball wound in the head ; left in Baltimore, and supposed to have died
since ; Henry Dyke, ball wound in the leg ; WH Young, hit with a brickbat on ..."
3. Sterling Dialogues: A Choice Collection of Original Dialogues Suitable for edited by William M. Clark (1898)
"SAM—Why, yeou see, Mr. brickbat, this feller thinka yeou air courtin' a leetle
... Wall, I reckon I'd better step eout and say good-bye tew the brickbat. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society by Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"Let us take the idea of a falling brickbat as our instance of a complex of
conscious states. The falling brickbat has certain physical consequences. ..."
5. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"Thus the argument rests entirely on a singularly crude brickbat notion of ...
This is that the object is a sort of indivisible brickbat, of which any and ..."
6. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"Enter NICHOLAS and JENKIN, JACK SLIME, ROGER brickbat, with country wenches, and
two or three ... O, brickbat! do not you know that comparisons are odious ? ..."
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