brusque

See also: Brusque and brusqué

English

Alternative forms

• brusk

Etymology

From French brusque, from Italian brusco (“rude, sharp, sour”); origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹuːsk/, /bɹʊsk/, /bɹʌsk/
• IPA^(key): /bɹʌsk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌsk

Adjective

brusque (comparative brusquer or more brusque, superlative brusquest or most brusque)

1. Rudely abrupt, unfriendly.
   • 1858, Anthony Trollope, Dr Thorne, ch. 3:

     He was brusque, authoritative, given to contradiction, rough though never dirty in his personal belongings, and inclined to indulge in a sort of quiet raillery.

   • 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones suffers the fog of war in the battle against the dead (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     When Dany showed up to throw the Night King off his steed and send him plunging to earth, it was at least a coherent action, which the brusque dragon-grappling prior to it failed to convey.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:brusque.

Related terms

• brusquely
• brusqueness

Translations

rudely abrupt, unfriendly

• Armenian: բռի (hy) (bṙi)
• Bulgarian: груб (bg) (grub), ря́зък (bg) (rjázǎk), безцеремо́нен (bg) (bezceremónen)
• Catalan: brusc
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唐突 (zh) (tángtū), 粗暴 (zh) (cūbào), 無禮／无礼 (zh) (wúlǐ), 无礼 (zh) (wúlǐ)

• Czech: bryskní
• Danish: brysk
• Dutch: bruusk (nl)
• Esperanto: abrupta
• Faroese: kvettorðaður, hvassorðaður
• Finnish: töykeä (fi)
• French: brusque (fr)
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• German: brüskierend (de), brüsk (de)
• Hungarian: nyers (hu), durva (hu)
• Icelandic: þurr á manninn, þurr á manninn, stuttur í spuna, stuttaralegur (is), hranalegur (is), byrstur, ruddalegur (is)
• Indonesian: serampangan (id), kasar (id), hantam kromo (id)
• Italian: brusco (it)
• Japanese: 素っ気ない (そっけない, sokkenai), ぶっきら棒な (ぶっきらぼうな, bukkirabō na), 無礼な (ja) (ぶれいな, burei na)
• Polish: opryskliwy (pl), szorstki (pl)
• Portuguese: brusco (pt)
• Russian: гру́бый (ru) (grúbyj), ре́зкий (ru) (rézkij), бесцеремо́нный (ru) (besceremónnyj)
• Spanish: brusco (es)
• Swedish: brysk (sv)

References

• “brusque”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “brusque”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “brusque”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian brusco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁysk/

• brusque:

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Adjective

brusque (plural brusques)

1. abrupt (sudden or hasty)

   Synonyms: abrupt, brutal

2. curt

Verb

brusque

1. first-person singular present indicative of brusquer
2. third-person singular present indicative of brusquer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of brusquer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of brusquer
5. second-person singular imperative of brusquer

Further reading

• “brusque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.