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"etymology_text": "The adjective is borrowed from French brusque, from Italian brusco (“abrupt, sudden, brusque; brisk; eager; sour, tart; unripe; grim-looking”); further etymology unknown.\nThe verb is derived from the adjective.",
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"ref": "1730, [Elijah] Fenton, “Observations on Some of Mr. Waller’s Poems. [To Zelinda.]”, in Edmund Waller, edited by [Elijah] Fenton, The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq; in Verse and Prose, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, page cv",
"text": "Mr. VValler, being probably of opinion that Monſieur Palamede’s arguments vvere too bruſque to be advanc’d in a diſpute vvith a Lady, vvho number’d not fevver than tvventy Kings of her progenitors, vvrote this poem in a more tender and courtly ſtyle; […]",
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"ref": "1761, “Thorpe Leigh; or, The Heir and the Owner”, in Riddell’s Review and Epitomist: A Literary Miscellany, and Record of Progress, part I, number III (New Series), London: J. H. Riddell, […], chapter XX, page 33, column 2",
"text": "[A]ll the answer Miss Jarron got was a brusque refusal, followed by Mr. Camperton's retreat from the piano.",
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"ref": "1788 May, “Art. VI. Of the Patagonians, Formed from the Relation of Father Falkener, a Jesuit, who had Resided among Them Thirty-eight Years, and from the Different Voyagers who had Met with this Tall Race. Printed by the Friendship of George Allan, Esq; at His Private Press at Darlington, 1788, 4to. 15 Pages. [book review]”, in [Thomas Christie], editor, The Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 47",
"text": "Father Falkener vvas, at the time of this viſit, 'about ſeventy years of age, active in mind and body, bruſque in his manners,' and very communicative.",
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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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"ref": "2005 April 29, “No soup for you? Not so fast”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2022-09-26",
"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, 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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"ref": "2018 June 19, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Inside the Crypto World’s Biggest Scandal”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-11",
"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.",
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"Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly."
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"word": "offhand"
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"word": "short"
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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"figuratively"
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"code": "hy",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "բռի"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "bezceremónen",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "безцеремо́нен"
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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"roman": "rjázǎk",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "ря́зък"
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "brusc"
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"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"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cūbào",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "粗暴"
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"code": "cmn",
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"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"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "bruusk"
},
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"tags": [
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "kortaf"
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"word": "abrupta"
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"code": "fo",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "hvassorðaður"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "kvettorðaður"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "jäyhä"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fi",
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"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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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uxeši",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "უხეში"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "brüsk"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "brüskierend"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "plötzlich"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"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",
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "skaiós",
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"word": "σκαιός"
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"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"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "byrstur"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"note": "of speech",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "hastur"
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{
"_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"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "ruddalegur"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "stuttaralegur"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "stuttur í spuna"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "þurr á manninn"
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
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"_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"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kenmohororo",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "けんもほろろ"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "素っ気無い"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"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"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "素気無い"
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"_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"
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"alt": "つっけんどん",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsukkendon",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "突っ慳貪"
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"_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"
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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"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "obcesowy"
},
{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "opryskliwy"
},
{
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"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"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"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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"_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"
},
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"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"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"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"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "vep",
"lang": "Veps",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "huiktelmatoi"
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"Sour, tart."
],
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"Sour",
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],
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"tart#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Sour, tart."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/bɹʊsk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɹuːsk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɹʌsk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ipa": "/bɹʌsk/",
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]
},
{
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"word": "hvassorðaður"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "ka",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "უხეში"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "brüsk"
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"code": "el",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
"word": "kanciasty"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "sco",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "rudely abrupt — see also curt, unfriendly",
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"code": "vep",
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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",
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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",
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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, part I, pages 10–11",
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