brusk
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See also: brüsk
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]brusk (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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[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse brjósk (“cartilage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]brusk c (singular definite brusken, plural indefinite bruske)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of brusk
Further reading
[edit]brusk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Lower Sorbian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]brusk m inan
- diminutive of brus
Declension
[edit]Declension 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]brusk n (definite singular brusket, indefinite plural brusk, definite plural bruska)
References
[edit]- “brusk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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