rusk

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”)

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹʌsk/
• Rhymes: -ʌsk

Noun

rusk (countable and uncountable, plural rusks)

Zwieback

1. a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
   • 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     ...he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.

2. a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, 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.

3. a weaning food for children
4. a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

Synonyms

• Brussels biscuit
• twice-baked bread
• zwieback

Translations

light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven

• Afrikaans: beskuit
• Czech: suchar (cs) m
• Danish: tvebak, krydder, skorpe
• Dutch: beschuit (nl) f, scheepsbeschuit f
• Finnish: korppu (fi)
• French: biscotte (fr), biscotin (fr)
• German: Zwieback (de)

• Greek: παξιμάδι (el) n (paximádi), φρυγανιά (el) f (fryganiá)
• Ido: biskoto (io)
• Italian: biscotto (it), fetta biscottata
• Latvian: sausiņi m pl
• Russian: (сдобный / сладкий) сухарь ((sdóbnyj / sládkij) sukhár’) m; галета (galéta) f
• Spanish: bizcocho (es) m, biscote
• Swedish: skorpa (sv) c

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɹʊsk]

Noun

rusk n (genitive singular rusks, plural rusk)

1. waste, rubbish, garbage

Declension

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket; indefinite plural rusk; definite plural ruska/ruskene)

1. waste, rubbish, garbage