Crossword clues for brisk
brisk
- A bit cool
- Vigorous, as a walk
- Sort of cold out
- Quick, as a walk
- Pleasantly zestful, as tea
- Pleasantly zestful
- Lively, as a quick walk
- Like some lively walks
- Like morning air, sometimes
- Like cool morning air
- Like autumn mornings
- Like an autumn breeze
- Like allegro movements
- Like a lively walk in the park
- Like a fast walk
- Like a cool autumn day
- Invigorating, as a walk
- Fast and energetic
- Cool and bracing
- Bustling, as business
- 45 degrees, say
- Like some walks and some winds
- Like a March wind
- Lively, as a walk
- Bracing
- Like fall weather
- Zippy
- Sharp and stimulating
- Energetic
- Sprightly
- Peppy
- Stimulating
- Active
- Lipton product
- Like fall air
- Quick and energetic
- Lipton iced tea brand
- Like sweater weather
- Like many winter days
- Like a rapid walk
- Like a cool fall morning
- Biting, as wind
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brisk \Brisk\ (br[i^]sk), a. [Cf. W. brysg, fr. brys haste, Gael. briosg quick, lively, Ir. broisg a start, leap, jerk.]
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Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile.
--Shak.Brisk toil alternating with ready ease.
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Full of spirit of life; effervesc?ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
Syn: Active; lively; agile; alert; nimble; quick; sprightly; vivacious; gay; spirited; animated.
Brisk \Brisk\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Bricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bricking.] To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, as Scottish bruisk, probably an alteration of French brusque (see brusque). Related: Briskly; briskness.
Wiktionary
Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. v
(context transitive often with "up" English) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.
WordNet
adj. quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy]
imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air" [syn: bracing, energizing, energising, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic]
very active; "doing a brisk business"
Wikipedia
Brisk may refer to:
- Brest, Belarus (Brest-Litovsk) Brisk (בריסק) is the city's name in Yiddish
- Brisk tradition and Soloveitchik dynasty, a school of Jewish thought originated by the Soloveitchik family of Brest (see also Brisker method)
- Brisk (beverage), an iced tea soft drink produced by a joint venture between the Pepsi-Lipton Company and Unilever
- BRISK, an Italian biotechnology company, specializing in surgical devices
- Briska 8, a high-speed electric train designed by Serb engineers for the Moscow metro
Brisk is a tea and juice brand managed by the Pepsi Lipton Partnership, a joint venture formed in 1991 between PepsiCo and Unilever. In 2012, PepsiCo announced Brisk had surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the 22 billion-dollar PepsiCo brands.
Usage examples of "brisk".
The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.
Heartened by his dinner and two extra whiskies and sodas, Captain Baster set out for Colet House at a brisk pace.
Buffy was with her, and they were following a Bringer, who was darting through the darkness in a brisk and furtive way.
Meshi was a bustler, whose brisk busy movements around the room could make it seem crowded with only a few people in it.
Jonathan proposed a brisk walk and Mandrake, knowing his host shared his own loathing for this sort of exercise, grinned to himself.
Mevrouw Pette was young, stylish and pretty, with a pleasant smiling face and a brisk voice.
Kingsley returned to the house after a brisk walk round the Nortonstowe estate, to find aniseed smoke prevading his room.
City clothes, at that Clothing designed for the temperaturecontrolled atmosphere of Rhomatum Tower, and hardly appropriate for a brisk Khoramali morning.
With a sigh, Punky reached into his vest pocket and deactivated his digital phone with a brisk little flick.
Beneath his window was a neat garden, scruffy now with autumn brownness, in the center of which was a formal quatrefoil pond, the water green with algae and rippling in the brisk wind.
Closing his eyes, he inhaled deeply of the brisk, unpolluted air, its innate refreshingness enhanced by the extra oxygen being pumped out by the forest.
Aunt Hatt took charge of him with a brisk efficiency that was tremendously comforting, and Guffy left him in her care when with Eager-Wright and young Hal they set out to search the house for Amanda and those unlucky watchdogs, Lugg and Scatty Williams.
Judge Schor whom we believed to be our enemy was brisk and matter-of-fact and must have learned to disguise his repugnance for Reddy.
There followed a brisk exchange of missiles, also ending in a scoreless draw, and subjecting the two humans to nothing worse than one more strange noise.
Surprises beating the ball about the field in a brisk, seamanlike fashion, but by now it was too late: as far as Stephen was concerned cricket was marked down for ever as an intolerably insipid pastime, decorative enough for half an hour, perhaps, but not to be compared with hurling for speed, skill, grace of movement, and dramatic fire.