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brusquerie | Word of the Day
December 04, 2018
brusquerie
[broos-kuh-
ree
]
noun
1.
abruptness and bluntness in manner; brusqueness.
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WORD OF THE DAY
brusquerie
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QUOTES
... I could see that she was doing her best to irritate me with the
brusquerie
of her answers.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
The Gambler (1866)
, translated by C. J. Hogarth, 1917
ORIGIN
Brusquerie
, which still feels like a French word, is a derivative of the adjective
brusque
. The French adjective comes from Italian
brusco
"rough, tart," a special use of the noun
brusco
"butcher's broom" (the name of a shrub).
Brusco
may come from Latin
bruscum
"a knot or growth on a maple tree"; or
brusco
may be a conflation of Latin
ruscus
,
ruscum
"butcher's broom" and Vulgar Latin
brūcus
"heather."
Brusquerie
entered English in the mid-18th century.
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