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BRUSK
Definition of BRUSK
adjective
Alternative spelling of brusque.
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Other senses
BRUSK carries 4 further meanings.
Abrupt in manner; rough; rude.
Synonyms see abrupt.
To treat with scant courtesy or in a brusk, offhand way: as,”in this first dialogue he brusques Tasso,”
In heraldry, tawny.
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BRUSK · 1 relative in the game
BRUSK in a sentence
“Here was no streak of fat, no apathy, only a lazy, good-natured play of gloves and tricks, with a brusk stiffness and harsh sharpness in the contacts that he knew belonged only to the trained and instinctive fighting man.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRUSK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 84 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRUSK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read BKRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found BRUSK?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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