Brickbat

Quick meaning: Brickbat is a noun meaning (figurative) A piece of (sharp) criticism or a (highly) uncomplimentary remark.

Meaning

(figurative) A piece of (sharp) criticism or a (highly) uncomplimentary remark.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun sense 1).
2. (transitive, figurative) To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism.
3. A piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon (for example, thrown or placed in a sock or other receptacle and used as a club).

Example Sentences

[S]he sēt [sent] a brick back after him & hit him on þᵉ back, […]

Not honoured, hardly even envied; only fools and the flunkey-species so much as envy me. I am conspicuous,—as a mark for curses and brickbats. What good is it?

Fragments of glass kept company with the dust on the floor, together with a choice collection of stones, brickbats, and other missiles,—which not improbably were the cause of their being there.

[Y]ᵉ body of King Charles the First was privately putt into the Sand about White-hall; and the coffin that was carried to Windsor and layd in K. Hen[ry] 8^(th's) vault was filled with rubbish, or brick-batts.

Word Forms

• brickbats
• brickbatting
• brickbatted

Antonyms for brickbat

Common opposites include bouquet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gibe, nailbat, club, baton, batoon, brick.

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