| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| brusque |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  br sk |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also brusk |
| ADJECTIVE: | Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt. See synonyms at gruff. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, lively, fierce, from Italian brusco, coarse, rough, from Late Latin br scum, perhaps blend of Latin rscus, butcher's broom,Late Latin brcus, heatherbriar1.| OTHER FORMS: | brusque ly —ADVERB
brusqueness —NOUN
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