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Definition: BRICKED |
BRICKEDImperative & past participle1. Of Brisk 2. Of Brick |
Date "BRICKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Glass bricked wall dental office]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Portal" by Stella Reese Commentary: "Interesting bricked up portal in Autun, France." |
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| "BRICKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 70.59% of the time. "BRICKED" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 70.59% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 14.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BRICKED": bricked-in, bricked-up. | |
Ending with "BRICKED": red-bricked. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BRICKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | zugemauert, zugemaürt (walled, walled up). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickedbray.(various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "BRICKED": goldbricked. (additional references) | |
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"BRICKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bracke, bracked, brcke, Brecker, brickenden, Brickendon, bricket, brocked, Brucke, ricked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: bicker, dicker, ricked. | |
-2 letters: bider, biked, biker, brick, bride, cebid, cider, cried, dicer, diker, dreck, icker, irked, rebid, riced. | |
-3 letters: beck, bice, bide, bier, bike, bird, birk, bred, brie, cedi, cire, crib, deck, dice, dick, dike, dire, dirk, drek, drib, iced, ired, keir, kerb, kibe, kier, reck, rice, rick, ride. | |
-4 letters: bed, bid, deb. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-i-k-r" | |
+1 letter: bickered, redbrick. | |
+2 letters: backfired, redbricks, rudbeckia. | |
+3 letters: backslider, breadstick, brickfield, rudbeckias. | |
+4 letters: backsliders, blackbirded, blackbirder, breadsticks, brickfields, cinderblock, goldbricked. | |
+5 letters: blackbirders, cinderblocks, crackbrained. | |
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