brusk
See also: brüsk
English
editAdjective
editbrusk (comparative brusker or more brusk, superlative bruskest or most brusk)
- (British, obsolete or US) Alternative spelling of brusque
- 1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XV, in Lothair. […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 161–162:
- Whether it were the absence of Theodora or some other cause, he was brusk, ungracious, scowling, and silent, only nodding to the Bishop who benignly saluted him, […]
Derived terms
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editDanish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse brjósk (“cartilage”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbrusk c (singular definite brusken, plural indefinite bruske)
Inflection
editDeclension of brusk
Further reading
edit- brusk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Lower Sorbian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbrusk m inan
- diminutive of brus
Declension
editDeclension of brusk
Further reading
edit- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “brusk”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “brusk”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editNoun
editbrusk n (definite singular brusket, indefinite plural brusk, definite plural bruska)
References
edit- “brusk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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