brickbat

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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).

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

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

   “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?”

3. fiil To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun sense 1).

   “We had two boys arrested, both colored, for brick-batting a colored woman in her house. They were sent to the chaingang for 12 months each.”

4. fiil To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism.