▸ adjective: Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly. ▸ adjective: Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending. ▸ adjective: (archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked. ▸ adjective: Emotionally fragile, easily offended. ▸ adjective: (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. ▸ adjective: (informal, proscribed) Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level. ▸ noun: A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts. ▸ noun: (by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To become brittle. ▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To gut. ▸ noun: A surname.
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