brickbat

Speech parts

1. brickbat - Noun

2. brickbat - Verb

Meaning

A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

barb bolt dart boo stone ball criticism missile brand bomb rocket abuse slight offense brick
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Antonyms

congratulations respect approval honor praise acclaim
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Hypernyms

criticism fragment unfavorable judgment

Phrases with the word

as blind as a brickbat blind as a brickbat

Examples

...a professor in one of the great female colleges. That odious form is common, and I submit and use it, though it offends me as much as it would to say female brickbat or female snow-storm or female geography. Mark Twain

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. Oscar Wilde

Brickbat: Who Ordered the Satellite? Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

brick-tea brick-wall limiter Brickaville brickbatting brickclay brickcoloured