rusk

See also: Rusk

English

Etymology

Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”)

Pronunciation

Noun

rusk (countable and uncountable, plural rusks)

Zwieback
  1. a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
  2. a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind‎:
      A newly-arrived couple at the next table […] admitted that “this was more like” and that if the Alpenrose could also produce a proper cup of tea it would be just like home. Bill Andreyef, who was eating a lightly-boiled egg and a rusk, regarded the other diners with resentment.
  3. a weaning food for children
  4. a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

Synonyms

Translations

Faroese

Etymology

Compare Old Norse rosk.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɹʊsk]

Noun

rusk n (genitive singular rusks, plural rusk)

  1. waste, rubbish, garbage

Declension
Declension of rusk
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rusk ruskið rusk ruskini
accusative rusk ruskið rusk ruskini
dative ruski ruskinum ruskum ruskunum
genitive rusks rusksins ruska ruskanna

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ruske.

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska or ruskene)

  1. waste, rubbish, garbage

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Old Norse ruskr

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

  1. a large specimen of something

Etymology 2

From ruske.

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

  1. waste, dust

Etymology 3

Related to ruse.

Noun

rusk n (definite singular rusket, indefinite plural rusk, definite plural ruska)

  1. sour weather with rain and wind; drizzle

Etymology 4

Likely from ruske.

Adjective

rusk (masculine and feminine rusk, neuter ruskt, definite singular and plural ruske, comparative ruskare, indefinite superlative ruskast, definite superlative ruskaste)

  1. crazy

References
  • Entry “rusk” in: Bokmålsordboka / Nynorskordboka by Universitetet i Oslo & Språkrådet.

Swedish

Noun

rusk n

  1. bad rainy (or snowy) weather
    regn och rusk
    bad rainy weather (idiomatic)
    Synonym: ruskväder

Declension
Declension of rusk 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative rusk rusket — —
Genitive rusks ruskets — —

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Cognate with Danish rysk, Swedish rysk, Nilandian ryskr, Smalandian ryskig, rysket, Norwegian rysk, rusk.

Adjective

rusk

  1. crazy[1][2]

References
  1. Larsson, Evert, Söderström, Sven, “rusk a. rusk”, in Hössjömålet : ordbok över en sydvästerbottnisk dialekt [The Hössjö speech: dictionary of a southern Westrobothnian dialect] (in Swedish) →ISBN, page 157
  2. Lindgren, J. V., “*rusk a. rús̱k”, in Orbok över Burträskmålet, page 112
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