Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
bruskly. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
bruskly, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
bruskly in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
bruskly you have here. The definition of the word
bruskly will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
bruskly, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From brusk + -ly.
Adverb
bruskly (comparative more bruskly, superlative most bruskly)
- Alternative spelling of brusquely
1906, Zona Gale, Romance Island:"Ah, well now, of course," St. George conceded, "but if you have a mysterious boarder who talks Patagonian or something, and we think that perhaps we can talk with her, why then--" "It doesn't matter whether you can talk every language in South America," said the warden bruskly.
1912, Eleanor M. Ingram, From the Car Behind:He rose bruskly and crossed the room.
1921, E. Alexander Powell, Where the Strange Trails Go Down:I didn't expect to be conveyed to my hotel atop a white elephant, through streets lined with salaaming natives, but neither did I expect to make a wild dash through thoroughfares as crowded with traffic as Fifth Avenue, in a vehicle which unmistakably owed its paternity to Mr. Henry Ford, or to be bruskly halted at busy street crossings by the upraised hand of a helmeted and white-gloved traffic policeman.
1992 July 3, Ben Joravsky, “Legal Assistance v. Board of Ed: Where should homeless kids go to school?”, in Chicago Reader:Dohrn writes that she called the home school on Shaw's behalf and "was told bruskly that these girls were no longer eligible to be students at the home school because they resided out of district."