Usually means: Abrupt and blunt in manner.
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  1. brusque: Merriam-Webster
  2. brusque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brusque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brusque: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brusque: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brusque, brusque: Wordnik
  7. brusque: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brusque: Wiktionary
  9. brusque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brusque (brusk): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brusque: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brusque, brusque: Dictionary.com
  13. brusque: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brusque: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brusque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brusque: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brusque: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brusque: Rhymezone
  19. brusque, brusque: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brusque: FreeDictionary.org
  21. brusque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. brusque: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. brusque: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. brusque: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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adjective:  Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.
adjective:  (obsolete) Sour, tart.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly archaic) To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner.
noun:  A city in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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