brickbat

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

brickbat
    n 1: a fragment of brick used as a weapon
    2: blunt criticism

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Brickbat \Brick"bat`\, n.
   A piece or fragment of a brick. See 1st {Bat}, n. 4. --Bacon.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "brickbat":
      Irish confetti, affront, aspersion, atrocity, bola, bolt,
      boomerang, contempt, contumely, countermissile, cut, despite, dump,
      enormity, flout, flouting, gibe, humiliation, indignity, injury,
      insult, jeer, jeering, missile, mock, mockery, offense, outrage,
      projectile, put-down, rock, rocket, scoff, scurrility, stone,
      taunt, throw stick, throwing-stick, torpedo,
      uncomplimentary remark, waddy