# brisk
## English
### Etymology

Uncertain; probably a collateral form of brusque, but compare Irish briosc, Scottish Gaelic brisg, Welsh brys.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɹɪsk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪsk

### Adjective

brisk (comparative brisker or more brisk, superlative briskest or most brisk)
* Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.
    Synonyms: lively, spirited, quick
    We took a brisk walk yesterday.
** 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 10:On such occasions he would remark-- "Shaving may add an air that's somewhat brisker, For dignity, commend me to the whisker."
** 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian‎:Ba, who has been linked with a January move to Arsenal, should have rewarded their brisk start with the opening goal in the 16th minute.
* Full of spirit of life; effervescing.
* (archaic) Sparkling; fizzy.
    brisk cider
* Stimulating or invigorating.
    This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
** 1896, A. E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”, in A Shropshire Lad:Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, / There's brisker pipes than poetry.
* Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
** 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

#### Derived terms

* briskish
* briskly
* briskness
* brisky

#### Translations

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#### See also

* brusque

### Verb

brisk (third-person singular simple present brisks, present participle brisking, simple past and past participle brisked)
* (ambitransitive, often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

### Further reading

* “brisk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “brisk”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “brisk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Birks, birks

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *britška, from Proto-Slavic *bričьkъ, diminutive of *bričь (“id”).

### Noun

brisk m (plural brisqe, definite brisku, definite plural brisqet)
* razor, penknife

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 121

## Lithuanian
### Alternative forms

* briski

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bʲrʲɪs̪k]

### Verb

brìsk
* second-person singular imperative of bristi

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* bresk (dialectal)

### Etymology 1

Possibly onomatopoetic of the sound made when put on fire.
Attested by Jacob Nicolai Wilse in 1780 in his dictionary of Spydeberg dialect.

#### Noun

brisk m (definite singular brisken, indefinite plural briskar, definite plural briskane)
* juniper
    Synonyms: brake, einer, eine

### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German britse, britsche, briske.

#### Noun

brisk m (definite singular brisken, indefinite plural briskar, definite plural briskane)
* a wall-bound sleeping bench

### References

* ↑ “brisk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.