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English

Etymology

Uncertain. Compare Welsh brwysg and French brusque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Adjective

brisk (comparative brisker or more brisk, superlative briskest or most brisk)

1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action

   Synonyms: lively, spirited, quick

   We took a brisk walk yesterday.
2. Full of spirit of life; effervescing
3. (archaic) sparkling; fizzy

   brisk cider

4. Stimulating or invigorating.

   This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
5. Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 15

     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.

Translations

See also

• brusque

Verb

brisk (third-person singular simple present brisks, present participle brisking, simple past and past participle brisked)

1. (transitive, intransitive, often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

Further reading

• brisk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• brisk in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• brisk at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Birks, birks

Albanian

Etymology

From brej, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *bhrisqo- (“bitter”). Compare Norwegian brisk (“bitter taste”), brisken (“bitter, sharp”), Welsh brysg, French brusque, Russian ????????? (brezgát?, “nauseate, feel disgust”), English brisk.

Noun

brisk m

1. razor
2. sharp, smart, keen, freezing cold

Lithuanian

Alternative forms

• briski

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?r??s?k]

Verb

brìsk

1. second-person singular imperative of bristi

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Possibly onomatopoetic of the sound made when put on fire.

Noun

brisk m (definite singular brisken, indefinite plural briskar, definite plural briskane)

1. juniper

Synonyms

• brake, einer

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German britse, britsche, briske.

Noun

brisk m (definite singular brisken, indefinite plural briskar, definite plural briskane)

1. a wall-bound sleeping bench

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ????? (bris), from Hebrew ???????? (b?rî?, “covenant”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /b??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
   • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus, Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4, page 129,

     The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.

   • 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155,

     Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.

   • 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 109,

     However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

Synonyms

• (circumcision): bris milah, brit milah

Derived terms

• bris periah

Translations

Anagrams

• IRBs, RBIs, RIBs, SBIR, ribs

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pr??s]
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

1. (anatomy) pancreas

Declension

Synonyms

• (pancreas): briskirtill

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?????/

Verb

bris (present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to break, fracture
2. sack, fire, dismiss
3. (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
4. (of dam) burst
5. (of government) overthrow

Conjugation

Derived terms

• athbhris (“break again”, verb)

Noun

bris f (genitive singular brise, nominative plural briseanna)

1. loss

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "bris" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bris(s)id”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “brisim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?r??s?]

Verb

brìs

1. third-person singular future of bristi
2. third-person plural future of bristi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German brise.

Noun

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)

1. (weather) a breeze

References

• “bris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German brise.

Noun

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)

1. (weather) a breeze

References

• “bris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• briss

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?r?is?/

Verb

bris

1. second-person singular imperative of brisid

·bris

1. inflection of brisid:
   1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

Verb

bris (past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. break, smash
2. breach

References

• “bris” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bris(s)id”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brî?s/

Noun

br?s m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (medicine) swab, smear

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bri?s/

Noun

bris c

1. breeze

Usage notes

Plural form could also be brisar

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English bridge.

Noun

bris

1. bridge
2. wharf

Welsh

Noun

bris

1. Soft mutation of pris.

Mutation