Definitions for brusque

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Spelling: [bruhsk; especially British broo sk]
IPA: /brʌsk; especially British brʊsk/

Brusque is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in brusque (beqrsuu).

Definitions for brusque

adjective

  1. abrupt in manner; blunt; rough:

Origin of brusque

1595-1605; Middle French Italian brusco rough, tart, special use of brusco (noun) butcher's broom Late Latin brūscum, for Latin rūscus, rūscum, perhaps conflated with Vulgar Latin *brūcus hea

Examples for brusque

Those who have interacted with him describe him as brusque, eccentric, clenched.

Thorpe hailed him, with a peremptory tone, and gave the brusque order, "Strand!"

It occurred to him that this brusque man of action might be compared to just such a being.

She is frequently described in the press with such adjectives as “brusque,” “aggressive,” and “undiplomatic in the extreme.”

A brusque question caused him to stutter to the point of suffocation.

He identifies as “brusque” like other New York City residents.

The colonel-president, with a brusque gesture, interrupted this confession.

Doctors, like the government itself, are brusque and hurried.

Then, with a brusque movement of furious resolution, he disappeared in the night.

And McCauley was surely friendlier that his brusque air of command indicated.

Word Value for brusque
Scrable

18

Words with friends

21

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