rusk
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹʌsk/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌsk
Noun[edit]
rusk (countable and uncountable, plural rusks)

- a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
- 1719 April 25, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, OCLC 838630407:
- […] he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
- a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- A newly-arrived couple at the next table […] admitted that “this was more like” and that if the Alpenrose could also produce a proper cup of tea it would be just like home. Bill Andreyef, who was eating a lightly-boiled egg and a rusk, regarded the other diners with resentment.
- a weaning food for children
- a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture
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Faroese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rusk n (genitive singular rusks, plural rusk)
Declension[edit]
Declension of rusk | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | rusk | ruskið | rusk | ruskini |
accusative | rusk | ruskið | rusk | ruskini |
dative | ruski | ruskinum | ruskum | ruskunum |
genitive | rusks | rusksins | ruska | ruskanna |
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ruske.
Noun[edit]
rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska or ruskene)
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)
Etymology 2[edit]
From ruske.
Noun[edit]
rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)
Etymology 3[edit]
Related to ruse.
Noun[edit]
rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)
Etymology 4[edit]
Likely from ruske.
Adjective[edit]
rusk (masculine and feminine rusk, neuter ruskt, definite singular and plural ruske, comparative ruskare, indefinite superlative ruskast, definite superlative ruskaste)
References[edit]
- Entry “rusk” in: Bokmålsordboka / Nynorskordboka by Universitetet i Oslo & Språkrådet.
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
rusk n
Declension[edit]
Declension of rusk | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | rusk | rusket | — | — |
Genitive | rusks | ruskets | — | — |
References[edit]
- rusk in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- rusk in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- rusk in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Westrobothnian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Danish rysk, Swedish rysk, Nilandian ryskr, Smalandian ryskig, rysket, Norwegian rysk, rusk.
Adjective[edit]
rusk
References[edit]
- ^ Larsson, Evert, Söderström, Sven, “rusk a. rusk”, in Hössjömålet : ordbok över en sydvästerbottnisk dialekt [The Hössjö speech: dictionary of a southern Westrobothnian dialect] (in Swedish) →ISBN, page 157
- ^ Lindgren, J. V., “*rusk a. rús̱k”, in Orbok över Burträskmålet, page 112
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