Definition of "brusk"

brusk

adjective
comparative brusker or more brusk, superlative bruskest or most brusk
1. (British, obsolete or US) Alternative spelling of brusque
  Quotations
  Whether it were the absence of Theodora or some other cause, he was brusk, ungracious, scowling, and silent, only nodding to the Bishop who benignly saluted him, […]
  1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XV, in Lothair. […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 161–162