bruskly

English

Etymology

brusk +‎ -ly

Adverb

bruskly (comparative more bruskly, superlative most bruskly)

1. Alternative spelling of brusquely
   • 1906, Zona Gale, Romance Island‎^[1]:

     "Ah, well now, of course," St. George conceded, "but if you have a mysterious boarder who talks Patagonian or something, and we think that perhaps we can talk with her, why then--" "It doesn't matter whether you can talk every language in South America," said the warden bruskly.

   • 1912, Eleanor M. Ingram, From the Car Behind‎^[2]:

     He rose bruskly and crossed the room.

   • 1921, E. Alexander Powell, Where the Strange Trails Go Down‎^[3]:

     I didn't expect to be conveyed to my hotel atop a white elephant, through streets lined with salaaming natives, but neither did I expect to make a wild dash through thoroughfares as crowded with traffic as Fifth Avenue, in a vehicle which unmistakably owed its paternity to Mr. Henry Ford, or to be bruskly halted at busy street crossings by the upraised hand of a helmeted and white-gloved traffic policeman.

   • 1992 July 3, Ben Joravsky, “Legal Assistance v. Board of Ed: Where should homeless kids go to school?”, in Chicago Reader‎^[4]:

     Dohrn writes that she called the home school on Shaw's behalf and "was told bruskly that these girls were no longer eligible to be students at the home school because they resided out of district."