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  1. candy

What Google Knows

Brittle is a type of confection consisting of flat broken pieces of hard sugar candy embedded with nuts such as pecans, almonds, or peanuts, and which are usually less than 1 cm thick.

Related Definition

  1. brittle:

    adj Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.

    adj Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.

    adj (archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.

    adj Emotionally fragile, easily offended.

    adj (engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.

    adj (informal, proscribed) Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.

    n A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.

    n (by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.

    v (intransitive) To become brittle.

    v (transitive, obsolete) To gut.

    n A surname.


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