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Adjective [English]

IPA: /bɹʊsk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɹuːsk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɹʌsk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɹʌsk/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-brusque.ogg Forms: brusquer [comparative], more brusque [comparative], brusquest [superlative], most brusque [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʌsk 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. Etymology templates: {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{bor|en|fr|brusque}} French brusque, {{der|en|it|brusco|t=abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking}} Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”), {{unknown|en|etymology unknown}} etymology unknown, {{glossary|verb}} verb Head templates: {{en-adj|er|more}} brusque (comparative brusquer or more brusque, superlative brusquest or most brusque)
  1. Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly. Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms: offhand, short Translations (rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly): ashpër [figuratively] (Albanian), բռի (bṙi) (Armenian), безцеремо́нен (bezceremónen) (Bulgarian), груб (grub) (Bulgarian), ря́зък (rjázǎk) (Bulgarian), brusc (Catalan), brusko (Cebuano), suplado (Cebuano), 粗暴 (cūbào) (Chinese Mandarin), 唐突 (tángtū) (Chinese Mandarin), 無禮 (Chinese Mandarin), 无礼 (wúlǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), bryskní (Czech), brysk (Danish), bruusk (Dutch), cassant [Belgium] (Dutch), kortaf (Dutch), abrupta (Esperanto), hvassorðaður (Faroese), kvettorðaður (Faroese), jäyhä (Finnish), töykeä (Finnish), brusque (French), უხეში (uxeši) (Georgian), brüsk (German), brüskierend (German), plötzlich (German), απότομος (apótomos) (note: of speech) (Greek), ανάγωγος (anágogos) (Greek), σκαιός (skaiós) (Greek), durva (Hungarian), nyers (Hungarian), byrstur (Icelandic), hastur (note: of speech) (Icelandic), hranalegur (Icelandic), hrjúfur (Icelandic), óheflaður (Icelandic), ruddalegur (Icelandic), stuttaralegur (Icelandic), stuttur í spuna (Icelandic), þurr á manninn (Icelandic), hantam kromo (Indonesian), kasar (Indonesian), serampangan (Indonesian), borb (Irish), brusco (Italian), sbrigativo (Italian), spicciativo (Italian), spiccio (Italian), ぶっきら棒な (bukkirabō na) (alt: ぶっきらぼうな) (Japanese), 無礼な (burei na) (alt: ぶれいな) (Japanese), けんもほろろ (kenmohororo) (Japanese), 素っ気無い (Japanese), 素っ気ない (sokkenai) (alt: そっけない) (Japanese), 素気無い (Japanese), 素気ない (sugenai) (alt: すげない) (Japanese), 突っ慳貪 (tsukkendon) (alt: つっけんどん) (Japanese), 무디다 (mudida) (Korean), abscīsus (Latin), о́тсечен (ótsečen) (Macedonian), brusc (Occitan), kanciasty (Polish), obcesowy (Polish), opryskliwy (Polish), oschły (Polish), szorstki (Polish), brusco (Portuguese), бесцеремо́нный (besceremónnyj) (Russian), гру́бый (grúbyj) (Russian), ре́зкий (rézkij) (Russian), affhand (Scots), brusco (Spanish), brysk (Swedish), burdus (Swedish), безцеремо́нний (bezceremónnyj) (Ukrainian), huiktelmatoi (Veps)
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  2. (obsolete) Sour, tart. Tags: obsolete
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Synonyms: brusk [Britain, US, obsolete] Derived forms: brusquely, brusqueness, brusquerie, brusquery

Verb [English]

IPA: /bɹʊsk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɹuːsk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɹʌsk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɹʌsk/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-brusque.ogg Forms: brusques [present, singular, third-person], brusquing [participle, present], brusqued [participle, past], brusqued [past]
Rhymes: -ʌsk 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. Etymology templates: {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{bor|en|fr|brusque}} French brusque, {{der|en|it|brusco|t=abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking}} Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”), {{unknown|en|etymology unknown}} etymology unknown, {{glossary|verb}} verb Head templates: {{en-verb}} brusque (third-person singular simple present brusques, present participle brusquing, simple past and past participle brusqued)
  1. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner. Tags: archaic, transitive Translations (to act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner): 무뚝뚝하다 (muttukttukhada) (Korean), 퉁명스럽다 (tungmyeongseureopda) (Korean)
    Sense id: en-brusque-en-verb-QolSk-jb

Adjective [French]

IPA: /bʁysk/ Audio: Fr-brusque.ogg Forms: brusques [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian brusco. Doublet of brusc. Etymology templates: {{bor+|fr|it|brusco}} Borrowed from Italian brusco, {{doublet|fr|brusc}} Doublet of brusc Head templates: {{fr-adj}} brusque (plural brusques)
  1. abrupt (sudden or hasty) Synonyms: abrupt, brutal
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  2. curt Categories (topical): Personality
    Sense id: en-brusque-fr-adj-MZeW0eGF Disambiguation of Personality: 2 71 12 15
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Derived forms: brusquement, brusquer

Verb [French]

IPA: /bʁysk/ Audio: Fr-brusque.ogg
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian brusco. Doublet of brusc. Etymology templates: {{bor+|fr|it|brusco}} Borrowed from Italian brusco, {{doublet|fr|brusc}} Doublet of brusc Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} brusque
  1. inflection of brusquer:
    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
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  2. inflection of brusquer:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: brusquer
    Sense id: en-brusque-fr-verb-6xhuld5e

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.",
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          "ref": "1962 November 19, “Publishers’ Association of New York City, et al. and New York Mailers Union No. 6 International Typographical Union, AFL-CIO and Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union”, in Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board (Cases No. 2-CA-7863 and 2-CA-7884), volume 139, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office [for the] National Labor Relations Board, published 1963, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1122:",
          "text": "Where there are reasonably adequate peaceful alternatives, the use of disruptive self-help by either side of a labor dispute in so important an enterprise contributes neither to the public convenience nor to the long-term interest of the participants. For if they are unable to resolve their differences by their own restraints and inventions, other and more impatient forces may provide brusquer machinery.",
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          "text": "The brusque New York chef [Ali Yeganeh] who was lampooned on \"Seinfeld\" as the \"Soup Nazi\" plans to open a chain of takeout soup stands across North America. But don’t expect the authentically rude New York treatment.",
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          "ref": "2014, “The People Responsible for the Genocide”, in Wolfgang Gust, editor, The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915–1916, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 69:",
          "text": "[…] I approached the Commissioner of Deportation with a request to release some Armenians who were employed by Germans. He refused this in the brusquest manner and said to me in an incredibly arrogant tone of voice which I will never forget, ‘Vous ne comprenez pas ce que nous voulons. Nous voulons une Arménie sans Arméniens.’ [You do not understand what we want. We want an Armenia without Armenians.]",
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          "text": "They admired in each other a brusque self-assurance and artless candor that others often perceived as arrogant.",
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          "ref": "2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31:",
          "text": "When Dany showed up to throw the Night King off his steed and send him plunging to earth, it was at least a coherent action, which the brusque dragon-grappling prior to it failed to convey.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly."
      ],
      "id": "en-brusque-en-adj-Qq55C0bY",
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        [
          "Rudely",
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          "abrupt",
          "abrupt#Adjective"
        ],
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          "curt",
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        ],
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          "unfriendly",
          "unfriendly"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "offhand"
        },
        {
          "word": "short"
        }
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "tags": [
            "figuratively"
          ],
          "word": "ashpër"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "bṙi",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "բռի"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bezceremónen",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "безцеремо́нен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "grub",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "груб"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "rjázǎk",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "ря́зък"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brusc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brusko"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "suplado"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "cūbào",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "粗暴"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tángtū",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "唐突"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "無禮"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "wúlǐ",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "无礼"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "bryskní"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brysk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "bruusk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "tags": [
            "Belgium"
          ],
          "word": "cassant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "kortaf"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "abrupta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "hvassorðaður"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "kvettorðaður"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "jäyhä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "töykeä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brusque"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "uxeši",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "უხეში"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brüsk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brüskierend"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "plötzlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "note": "of speech",
          "roman": "apótomos",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "απότομος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "anágogos",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "ανάγωγος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "skaiós",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "σκαιός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "durva"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "nyers"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "byrstur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "note": "of speech",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "hastur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "hranalegur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "hrjúfur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "óheflaður"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "ruddalegur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "stuttaralegur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "stuttur í spuna"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "þurr á manninn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "hantam kromo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "kasar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "serampangan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "borb"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brusco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "sbrigativo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "spicciativo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "spiccio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "ぶっきらぼうな",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "bukkirabō na",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "ぶっきら棒な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "ぶれいな",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "burei na",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "無礼な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kenmohororo",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "けんもほろろ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "素っ気無い"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "そっけない",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sokkenai",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "素っ気ない"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "素気無い"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "すげない",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sugenai",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "素気ない"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "つっけんどん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "tsukkendon",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "突っ慳貪"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "mudida",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "무디다"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "abscīsus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ótsečen",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "о́тсечен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brusc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "kanciasty"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "obcesowy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "opryskliwy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "oschły"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "szorstki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brusco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "besceremónnyj",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "бесцеремо́нный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "grúbyj",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "гру́бый"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "rézkij",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "ре́зкий"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sco",
          "lang": "Scots",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "affhand"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brusco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "brysk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "burdus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "bezceremónnyj",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "безцеремо́нний"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vep",
          "lang": "Veps",
          "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
          "word": "huiktelmatoi"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXIII.] The Medecines which Grapes Fresh and New Gathered doe Yeeld. […].”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 152:",
          "text": "[T]he thin and bruske harſh vvine doth nouriſh the bodie leſſe, but yet more agreeable and nutritive it is to the ſtomack.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Sour, tart."
      ],
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          "sour#Adjective"
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        "(obsolete) Sour, tart."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
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      "ipa": "/bɹʊsk/",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "ipa": "/bɹuːsk/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bɹʌsk/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bɹʌsk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ʌsk"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Britain",
        "US",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "brusk"
    }
  ],
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}

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      },
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "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": "Had this been done, Denine had not been bruſqued and carried by Villars at the firſt aſſault, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "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:",
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          "text": "Whether it were the absence of Theodora or some other cause, he was brusk, ungracious, scowling, and silent, only nodding to the Bishop who benignly saluted him, […]",
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          "text": "He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.",
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          "text": "Where there are reasonably adequate peaceful alternatives, the use of disruptive self-help by either side of a labor dispute in so important an enterprise contributes neither to the public convenience nor to the long-term interest of the participants. For if they are unable to resolve their differences by their own restraints and inventions, other and more impatient forces may provide brusquer machinery.",
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          "ref": "2014, “The People Responsible for the Genocide”, in Wolfgang Gust, editor, The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915–1916, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 69:",
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cūbào",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "粗暴"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tángtū",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "唐突"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "無禮"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wúlǐ",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "无礼"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "bryskní"
    },
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brysk"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "bruusk"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "tags": [
        "Belgium"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "kortaf"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "abrupta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "hvassorðaður"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "kvettorðaður"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "jäyhä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "töykeä"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brusque"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "uxeši",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "უხეში"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brüsk"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brüskierend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "plötzlich"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "note": "of speech",
      "roman": "apótomos",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "απότομος"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "anágogos",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "ανάγωγος"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "skaiós",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "σκαιός"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "durva"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "nyers"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "byrstur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "note": "of speech",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "hastur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "hranalegur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "hrjúfur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "óheflaður"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "ruddalegur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "stuttaralegur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "stuttur í spuna"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "þurr á manninn"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "hantam kromo"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "kasar"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "serampangan"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "borb"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brusco"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "sbrigativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "spicciativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "spiccio"
    },
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      "alt": "ぶっきらぼうな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bukkirabō na",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "ぶっきら棒な"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぶれいな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "burei na",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "無礼な"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kenmohororo",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "けんもほろろ"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "素っ気無い"
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      "alt": "そっけない",
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "sokkenai",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "素っ気ない"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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      "alt": "すげない",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sugenai",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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    },
    {
      "alt": "つっけんどん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tsukkendon",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "突っ慳貪"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mudida",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "무디다"
    },
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "abscīsus"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "roman": "ótsečen",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "о́тсечен"
    },
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      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brusc"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "kanciasty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "obcesowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "opryskliwy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "oschły"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "szorstki"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brusco"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besceremónnyj",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "бесцеремо́нный"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "grúbyj",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "гру́бый"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rézkij",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "ре́зкий"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "affhand"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brusco"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "brysk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "burdus"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezceremónnyj",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "безцеремо́нний"
    },
    {
      "code": "vep",
      "lang": "Veps",
      "sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
      "word": "huiktelmatoi"
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          "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": "Had this been done, Denine had not been bruſqued and carried by Villars at the firſt aſſault, […]",
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          "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": "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.",
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          "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": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "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": "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.",
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          "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": "[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.",
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        {
          "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": "He blamed himself very severely for his attempt at brusquing Fate.",
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          "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": "The scholar may object that Professor Macmurray is a 'judaizer' who not only brusques the authority of the Church.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "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:",
          "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.",
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      "roman": "muttukttukhada",
      "sense": "to act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner",
      "word": "무뚝뚝하다"
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[General Battles.]”, in Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne. […], Dublin: […] George Faulkner, […], →OCLC, footnote †, page 36:\", \"text\": \"Had this been done, Denine had not been bruſqued and carried by Villars at the firſt aſſault, […]\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"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\": \"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.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1803 March 4, William Wilberforce, “W. 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[…] No. I.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XX, number CXVIII, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 427, column 1:\", \"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.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"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\": \"He blamed himself very severely for his attempt at brusquing Fate.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"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\": \"The scholar may object that Professor Macmurray is a 'judaizer' who not only brusques the authority of the Church.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"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:\", \"text\": \"Sometimes in bed Cole doesn't allow your hand to stay on his chest, he brusques it away. 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