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brickbat

[ brik-bat ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a piece of broken brick, especially one used as a missile.
any rocklike missile.
an unkind or unfavorable remark; caustic criticism:
The critics greeted the play with brickbats.

brickbat

/ ˈbrɪkˌbæt /

First recorded in 1555–65; brick + bat ¹

A feeling of sadness and longingThat is not like being sick, And resembles sorrow onlyAs a brickbat resembles a brick.

It set Tom to thinking; he said afterwards the spectacle was enough to make a brickbat wake up and think.

Some of our readers may think that this was a fit punishment for having “pashed” the toad to “death with a brickbat.”

There isn't a mineral in Louisiana, unless it is a brickbat.

I was there myself, and did what I could to quiet the tumult, receiving more than one brickbat for my interference.

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