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say it: bruhsk
brusque is an adjective meaning "marked by rude or peremptory shortness". It is pronounced /ˈbɹʌsk/ — bruhsk. It carries one recorded sense.
marked by rude or peremptory shortness
“try to cultivate a less brusque manner”
“a curt reply”
“the salesgirl was very short with him”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brusque come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.