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Brush and brusque are not related, but they sound similar — when someone is brusque, you often feel that they are trying to give you the brush off. Near synonyms for brusque are curt , short , and gruff .
Brisk and brusque sound the same and can both mean fast or short, but one has a more impolite connotation than the other.
us / brʌsk / Add to word list. quick and direct in manner or speech, and often not polite: As the president’s chief of staff, he offended many with his brusque manner.
Definition of brusque adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe a person or their behaviour as brusque, you mean that they deal with things, or say things, quickly and shortly, so that they seem to be rude. The doctors are brusque and busy. They received a characteristically brusque reply from him.
If you describe a person or their behavior as brusque, you mean that they deal with things, or say things, quickly and shortly, so that they seem to be rude. [...]
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OED's earliest evidence for brusque is from 1826, in the writing of Walter Scott, poet and novelist. It is also recorded as an adjective from the early 1600s. brusque is formed within English, by conversion.
