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brusca f sg

  1. feminine singular of brusc
  • IPA(key): /ˈbru.ska/
  • Rhymes: -uska
  • Hyphenation: brù‧sca

From Late Latin bruscus (“butcher's broom”), from brucus (“heather”).

brusca f (plural brusche, diminutive bruschétta (“dry twig”) or bruschìno (“scrubbing brush”))

  1. scrubbing brush
  2. Synonym of coda cavallina
  3. stubble or dried-up twig

From Proto-Germanic *buskaz, with influence from brusco.

brusca f (plural brusche, diminutive bruschétta)

  1. (obsolete) straw
  2. (historical) a flexible, graduated ruler used by shipbuilders
    Synonyms: busca, (obsolete) fraschia

Deverbal from bruscare (“to burn, toast”) +‎ -a.

brusca f (plural brusche)

  1. (botany) scorch (desiccation of the apex of a leaf or shoot)
    Synonyms: abbruscatura, bruscatura

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brusca

  1. feminine singular of brusco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brusca

  1. inflection of bruscare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  • brusca1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

brusca

  1. feminine singular of brusco

Borrowed from French brusquer.

a brusca (third-person singular present bruschează, past participle bruscat) 1st conjugation

  1. to shove
  2. (transitive) to rush (an operation)

Compare Italian brusca (“scrubbing brush”).

brusca f (plural bruschi)

  1. scrubbing brush, especially one for grooming horses; a horsebrush
    Synonym: scupitta
  • 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
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɾuska/ [ˈbɾus.ka]
  • Rhymes: -uska
  • Syllabification: brus‧ca

brusca

  1. feminine singular of brusco