brotel

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === brotil, brutil, brotyl, brutel, brutyll, bruttle, brotle === Etymology === From Old English *brotul. === Adjective === brotel Fragile, brittle, easily broken. Easily hurt or destroyed, feeble. Changeable, mutable; precarious, uncertain. late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1279-1280: Morally weak, fickle, vacillating, untrustworthy. ==== Related terms ==== britel ==== Descendants ==== English: brottle, bruttle, brattle (dialectal) === References === “brotel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.