[f. prec. adj.]
1. with impers. obj. To brusque it: to assume a brusque manner, to ‘do it’ brusquely.
1826. Scott, Woodst. (1832), I. 150. I’ll e’en brusque it a little … and try if I can bring him to a more intelligible mode of speaking.
2. trans. To treat brusquely or with scant courtesy, to treat in an off-handed way.
1836. Fraser’s Mag., XIII. 530. Even in this first dialogue he brusques Tasso. Ibid. (1839), XX. 427. From the outset Blackwood domineered over and brusqued him.
1862. M. Napier, Life Visc. Dundee, II. 292. No disposition to slur over, or brusque the question.
