brusque
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /bɹʊsk/ / /bɹuːsk/ / /bɹʌsk/
adj
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from French brusque, from Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”); further etymology unknown. The verb is derived from the adjective.
- Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.
“Mr. VValler, being probably of opinion that Monſieur Palamede’s arguments vvere too bruſque to be advanc’d in a diſpute vvith a Lady, vvho number’d not fevver than tvventy Kings of her progenitors, vvrote this poem in a more tender and courtly ſtyle; […]”
“[A]ll the answer Miss Jarron got was a brusque refusal, followed by Mr. Camperton's retreat from the piano.”
- Sour, tart.
“[T]he thin and bruske harſh vvine doth nouriſh the bodie leſſe, but yet more agreeable and nutritive it is to the ſtomack.”
name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Brusque.
- A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
verb
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from French brusque, from Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”); further etymology unknown. The verb is derived from the adjective.
- To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner.
“Had this been done, Denine had not been bruſqued and carried by Villars at the firſt aſſault, […]”
“He was indefatigable while he stayed and took true pains, but he brusqued the ministers too much, and I found after he was gone that he had thereby given more offense than I could have imagined.”