rusk

See also: Rusk

English

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, 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.

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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 面包干 (zh)

• Czech: suchar (cs) m
• Danish: tvebak, krydder, skorpe (da)
• Dutch: beschuit (nl) f, scheepsbeschuit (nl) 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
• Persian: سوخاری‎ (fa) (suxâri)
• Polish: suchar (pl) m
• Portuguese: torrada (pt) f
• 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

Etymology

Compare Old Norse rosk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɹʊsk]

Noun

rusk n (genitive singular rusks, plural rusk)

1. waste, rubbish, garbage

Declension

Declension of rusk
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

Etymology

From ruske.

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska or ruskene)

1. waste, rubbish, garbage

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Old Norse ruskr

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

1. a large specimen of something

Etymology 2

From ruske.

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

1. waste, dust

Etymology 3

Related to ruse.

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

1. sour weather with rain and wind; drizzle

Etymology 4

Likely from ruske.

Adjective

rusk (masculine and feminine rusk, neuter ruskt, definite singular and plural ruske, comparative ruskare, indefinite superlative ruskast, definite superlative ruskaste)

1. crazy

References

• Entry “rusk” in: Bokmålsordboka / Nynorskordboka by Universitetet i Oslo & Språkrådet.

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

Cognate with Danish rysk, Swedish rysk, Nilandian ryskr, Smalandian ryskig, rysket, Norwegian rysk, rusk.

Adjective

rusk

1. crazy