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Brickbat

noun

A fragment of brick used as a weapon.

Blunt criticism.

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"Brickbat" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hastings stood at the bar of Westminster Hall—when the Methodist preacher walked through a line of men, each of whom greeted him with a brickbat or a rotten egg, they had some preparation for the crisis, and it might not be very difficult to meet it with an impassive brow. Our little girl was quite unprepared to find herself in the midst of a world which despised her, and ...

— Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 • S.M. Fuller

... at that damned fruit-eatin' Frinchman!" howled McMahon. "Cheerin' the niggers, are you?" and he let fly a brickbat in ...

— The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories • Alice Dunbar

... fetch up alongside Mick, who almost exploded with delight on my informing him we were to go ashore together. He pitched the piece of 'gammy duff' he was carving on his plate, which, by the way, was as hard as a brickbat, with the raisins or 'gammies' which it contained barely at signal distance apart, right up above his head to the deck beam, where it caught on to one of the hooks and remained ...

— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson

... to rouse her to fury; and it appeared that Mrs. Bridgeman, the Reverend Mother in the Crimea, had ventured to call that authority in question. Sir John Hall thought that his opportunity had come, and strongly supported Mrs. Bridgeman— or, as Miss Nightingale preferred to call her, the 'Reverend Brickbat'. ...

— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey

Words linked to "Brickbat" : criticism, unfavorable judgment, fragment