brusque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʊsk/
ipa: /bɹuːsk/
ipa: /bɹʌsk/
ipa: /bɹʌsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: brusques
form: brusquing
form: brusqued
form: brusqued
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from French brusque, from Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”); further etymology unknown.
The verb is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Had this been done, Denine had not been bruſqued and carried by Villars at the firſt aſſault, […]
ref: 1740, A[dam] Williamson, “The Disposition of an Army. [General Battles.]”, in Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne. […], Dublin: […] George Faulkner, […], →OCLC, footnote †, page 36:
text: He was indefatigable while he stayed and took true pains, but he brusqued the ministers too much, and I found after he was gone that he had thereby given more offense than I could have imagined.
ref: 1781 August 24, Benjamin Franklin, “[Benjamin] Franklin to [William] Carmichael”, in Francis Wharton, editor, The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States. […] (50th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Mis. Doc.; 603, part 4), volume IV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1889, →OCLC, page 660:
text: Not that I suspect you of thus brusquing matters. It is rather my own fault where, which is too often the case, I am not too negligent about the spiritual concerns of my friends.
ref: 1803 March 4, William Wilberforce, “W. Wilberforce, Esq. to Thomas Babington, Esq.”, in Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, editors, The Correspondence of William Wilberforce. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 263:
text: I'll e'en brusque it a little, if he goes on at this rate, and try if I can bring him to a more intelligible mode of speaking.
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 201:
text: [H]e [Thomas Pringle] was poor, and from the outset [William] Blackwood domineered over and brusqued him. [James] Cleghorn was also poor, but of a sturdy disposition, and he brusqued every body.
ref: 1839 October, [Egerton Brydges], “Some Recollections of James Hogg. […] No. I.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XX, number CXVIII, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 427, column 1:
text: He blamed himself very severely for his attempt at brusquing Fate.
ref: 1901, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ultimatum”, in The Tangled Skein, London: Greening & Co., published 1907, →OCLC, part II (The Lady Ursula), page 117:
text: The scholar may object that Professor Macmurray is a 'judaizer' who not only brusques the authority of the Church.
ref: 1939 August, George [Edward Gordon] Catlin, “Moralism”, in Anglo-Saxony and Its Tradition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, § v, page 272:
text: Sometimes in bed Cole doesn't allow your hand to stay on his chest, he brusques it away. Sometimes he lets your hand rest there.
ref: 2003, [Nikki Gemmell], “Lesson 5: It is Absolutely Necessary to Wash the Armpits and Hips Every Day”, in The Bride Stripped Bare, London; New York, N.Y.: Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, →ISBN, part I, pages 10–11:
glosses: To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner.