brusque
very short and impolite (speaking)
TRANSLATION
brusque = schroff, brüsk, barsch, rüde brusque = in unerwartet unhöflicher Weise barsch, schroff --- GOOGLE INDEX brusque: approximately 11,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Some praised him, but others said he could be BRUSQUE and intimidating.
(New York Times)
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He was BRUSQUE and barely civil, though he did loosen up and engage in conversation about the direction in which we thought literature might be headed.
(The Guardian)
(New York Times)
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He was BRUSQUE and barely civil, though he did loosen up and engage in conversation about the direction in which we thought literature might be headed.
(The Guardian)
Did you
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brusque
adjective
- quick or rude in manner or speech
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Brusque is pronounced like "brusk" and is even spelled this way from time to time, although it is meanwhile considered an archaic form. Regardless of the spelling, the definition remains the same: a short, rude or impolite way of interacting with someone.
The supermarket cashier might be brusque if he or she is having a bad day for example. Or perhaps the cashier generally has a brusque manner. The airport security guard, after having checked 500 passengers during a shift, could suddenly be brusque with the next traveller. Pity passenger number 501.
Is it possible to be brusquer? Is there such a thing as the brusquest person on the planet? Although these superlative forms are not incorrect, usage is tending toward "more brusque" and "most brusque."
The word brusque comes to us from the French brusque (lively, fierce) and ultimately from the Italian brusco (sharp, tart, rough) and perhaps even from the Vulgar Latin bruscum, a plant with the common name "butcher's broom."
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SYNONYMS
abrupt, blunt, brief, curt, discourteous, impolite, short, snappy, snippy, surly, tart, unmannerly
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I didn't give the waiter a tip because he was very brusque."
adjective
- quick or rude in manner or speech
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Brusque is pronounced like "brusk" and is even spelled this way from time to time, although it is meanwhile considered an archaic form. Regardless of the spelling, the definition remains the same: a short, rude or impolite way of interacting with someone.
The supermarket cashier might be brusque if he or she is having a bad day for example. Or perhaps the cashier generally has a brusque manner. The airport security guard, after having checked 500 passengers during a shift, could suddenly be brusque with the next traveller. Pity passenger number 501.
Is it possible to be brusquer? Is there such a thing as the brusquest person on the planet? Although these superlative forms are not incorrect, usage is tending toward "more brusque" and "most brusque."
The word brusque comes to us from the French brusque (lively, fierce) and ultimately from the Italian brusco (sharp, tart, rough) and perhaps even from the Vulgar Latin bruscum, a plant with the common name "butcher's broom."
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SYNONYMS
abrupt, blunt, brief, curt, discourteous, impolite, short, snappy, snippy, surly, tart, unmannerly
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I didn't give the waiter a tip because he was very brusque."
