transcription, транскрипция: [ brʌsk ]
If you describe a person or their behaviour as brusque , you mean that they deal with things, or say things, quickly and shortly, so that they seem to be rude.
The doctors are brusque and busy...
They received a characteristically brusque reply from him.
= abrupt
ADJ
• brusque‧ly
‘It’s only a sprain,’ Paula said brusquely.
ADV : ADV with v