brisk
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; probably a collateral form of brusque, but compare Irish briosc, Scottish Gaelic brisg, Welsh brys.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bɹɪsk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪsk
Adjective
[edit]brisk (comparative brisker or more brisk, superlative briskest or most brisk)
- Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 10:
- On such occasions he would remark--
"Shaving may add an air that's somewhat brisker,
For dignity, commend me to the whisker."
- 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Ba, who has been linked with a January move to Arsenal, should have rewarded their brisk start with the opening goal in the 16th minute.
- Full of spirit of life; effervescing.
- (archaic) Sparkling; fizzy.
- brisk cider
- Stimulating or invigorating.
- This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”, in A Shropshire Lad:
- Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, / There's brisker pipes than poetry.
- Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]brisk (third-person singular simple present brisks, present participle brisking, simple past and past participle brisked)
- (transitive, intransitive, often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.
Further reading
[edit]- “brisk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “brisk”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “brisk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Albanian *britška, from Proto-Slavic *bričьkъ, diminutive of *bričь (“id”).[1]
Noun
[edit]brisk m (plural brisqe, definite brisku, definite plural brisqet)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 121
Lithuanian
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[edit]Verb
[edit]brìsk
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Possibly onomatopoetic of the sound made when put on fire.[1]
Attested by Jacob Nicolai Wilse in 1780 in his dictionary of Spydeberg dialect.
Noun
[edit]brisk m (definite singular brisken, indefinite plural briskar, definite plural briskane)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Low German britse, britsche, briske.
Noun
[edit]brisk m (definite singular brisken, indefinite plural briskar, definite plural briskane)
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