brusca - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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brusca f sg
From Late Latin bruscus (“butcher's broom”), from brucus (“heather”).
brusca f (plural brusche, diminutive bruschétta (“dry twig”) or bruschìno (“scrubbing brush”))
- scrubbing brush
- Synonym of coda cavallina
- stubble or dried-up twig
- Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “brusque”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
From Proto-Germanic *buskaz, with influence from brusco.
brusca f (plural brusche, diminutive bruschétta)
- (obsolete) straw
- (historical) a flexible, graduated ruler used by shipbuilders
Deverbal from bruscare (“to burn, toast”) + -a.
brusca f (plural brusche)
- (botany) scorch (desiccation of the apex of a leaf or shoot)
- Synonyms: abbruscatura, bruscatura
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
brusca
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
brusca
- inflection of bruscare:
- brusca1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
brusca
Borrowed from French brusquer.
a brusca (third-person singular present bruschează, past participle bruscat) 1st conjugation
- to shove
- (transitive) to rush (an operation)
Compare Italian brusca (“scrubbing brush”).
brusca f (plural bruschi)
- scrubbing brush, especially one for grooming horses; a horsebrush
- Synonym: scupitta
- → Maltese: broxk
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “brusca”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 569
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “brùsca”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 119
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