Meaning and Origin
What does the name Brick mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Brick
User Submitted Origins
English
63%
Gaelic
21%
Punjabi
5%
Croatian
5%
Turkish
5%
User Submitted Meanings
- According to a user from Washington, U.S., the name Brick is of Punjabi origin and means "Building block".
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Brick
Senses
- A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp."The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians." [Layard.]
- Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick ."Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick." [Weale.]
- Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brickof bread.
- A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick .(Slang)"He 's a dear little brick." [Thackeray.]
Note: ☞ Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red.
Etymology: OE. brik, F. brique; of Ger. origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hlāfes brice, fr. the root of E. break. See Break
verb Brick
Senses
- To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
- To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.
Other Dictionary Sources
- Rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
- A good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
Wiktionary
From Middle French briche, brique (“brick”), probably from a Germanic source. Compare to Middle Dutch bricke (“broken piece; tile”), Middle English brike. Cognate with the verb break.
- (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- This wall is made of .
- (uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
- This house is made of .
- (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
- a plastic explosive
- (dated) A helpful and reliable person.
- Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a .
- (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- We can't win if we keep throwing up from three-point land.
- (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
- (technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
- The two of clubs was a complete on the river
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brick was also found in the following language(s): French, Manx, and Scots