brusk

brusk (comparative brusker or more brusk, superlative bruskest or most brusk)

1. (British, obsolete or US) Alternative spelling of brusque
   • 1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XV, in Lothair. […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 161–162:

     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, […]

• Burks, burks

From Old Norse brjósk (“cartilage”).

• IPA^(key): /brusk/, [b̥ʁusɡ̊]

brusk c (singular definite brusken, plural indefinite bruske)

1. cartilage, gristle

• brusk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

brus +‎ -k

• IPA^(key): [brusk]

brusk m inan

1. Diminutive of brus

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “brusk”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “brusk”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From Old Norse brjósk.

brusk n (definite singular brusket, indefinite plural brusk, definite plural bruska)

1. cartilage, gristle

• “brusk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.