ETYM French brusque, from Italian brusco brusque, tart, sour, perh. from Latin (vitis) labrusca wild (vine); or cf. Old High Germ. bruttisc grim, from brutti terror.
Marked by rude or peremptory shortness; SYN. brusk, curt, short.
Blunt in speech or conduct.
Prost, surov, neotesan, sirov, nesavitljiv (u obradi) nedorađen, težak, nemilosrdan (nem.)
Osoran, nabusit.
Grub, nabusit.
Bridak, naoštren.