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breakable, a. and n. pl.|ˈbreɪkəb(ə)l|
[f. break v. + -able.]
A. adj. Capable of being broken, frangible.
1570Levins Manip. 2 Breakable, fragilis. 1611Cotgr., Brisable, burstable, breakeable. 1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 278 Christ's bones were in themselves breakable. 1844Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. xii. 100 Breaking the eggs and every other thing breakable.
B. n. pl. Things which are capable of being broken.
1820Byron Let. 12 June in R. E. Prothero Lett. & Jrnl. Byron (1901) V. 44 Mother Mocenigo will probably try a bill for breakables. 1904H. G. Wells Food of Gods i. iv. 117 The child was born with good intentions. ‘Padda be good, be good,’ he used to say as the breakables flew before him. 1909― Tono-Bungay i. ii. §4 There was a plaster of Paris horse to indicate veterinary medicines among these breakables.
Hence ˈbreakableness.
1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. xv. §13 The character on which he fixes first is frangibility—breakableness to bits. |