rusk

Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”)

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹʌsk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌsk

rusk (countable and uncountable, plural rusks)

Zwieback

1. a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

     […] he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.

2. a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     A newly-arrived couple at the next table […] admitted that “this was more like” and that if the Alpenrose could also produce a proper cup of tea it would be just like home. Bill Andreyef, who was eating a lightly-boiled egg and a rusk, regarded the other diners with resentment.

3. a weaning food for children
4. a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

• Brussels biscuit
• twice-baked bread
• zwieback

Compare Old Norse rosk.

• IPA^(key): [ɹʊsk]

rusk n (genitive singular rusks, plural rusk)

1. waste, rubbish, garbage

From ruske.

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska or ruskene)

1. waste, rubbish, garbage

Old Norse ruskr

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

1. a large specimen of something

From ruske.

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

1. waste, dust

Related to ruse.

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

1. sour weather with rain and wind; drizzle

Likely from ruske.

rusk (masculine and feminine rusk, neuter ruskt, definite singular and plural ruske, comparative ruskare, indefinite superlative ruskast, definite superlative ruskaste)

1. crazy

• Entry “rusk” in: Bokmålsordboka / Nynorskordboka by Universitetet i Oslo & Språkrådet.

rusk n

1. bad rainy (or snowy) weather

   Synonym: ruskväder

   regn och rusk

   bad rainy weather (idiomatic)

• rusk in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rusk in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rusk in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)