Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
BRICKLE
brittle, brickle, brickly
(adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; ābrittle bonesā; āglass is brittleā; āābrickleā and ābricklyā are dialectalā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
brickle
(Appalachian or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
Etymology 2
From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.
Verb
brickle (third-person singular simple present brickles, present participle brickling, simple past and past participle brickled)
(Canadian English, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
Source: Wiktionary
Bric"kle, a. Etym: [OE. brekil, brokel, bruchel, fr. AS. brecan, E. break. Cf. Brittle.]
Definition: Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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