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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brisk
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brisk walk
▪ A brisk walk will improve your circulation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
▪ Humor consultants are doing a brisk business everywhere.
▪ Newsstands here were doing a brisk business selling JonBenet coverage.
▪ M., the store finally opened, and it immediately did a brisk business in coffee, beer, and cookies.
pace
▪ Smith has a second claim with his knack of producing wicket-taking spells at a brisk pace.
▪ We were determined to go through the speakers listed at a calm but brisk pace, then leave.
▪ He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo.
▪ With knapsack in hand, a brisk pace is assumed.
▪ None the less, research and development in post-war fighter aircraft went forward at a brisk pace and over a wide range of options.
▪ It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west.
▪ This proved the correct thing to do, as he turned to the left at a brisk pace.
trade
▪ The Taunton 150 special anniversary ale almost sold out in the first day and most other stallholders enjoyed a brisk trade too!
▪ A brisk trade in newspapers was kept up almost continually.
▪ Men in shirtsleeves and women in summer dresses were strolling around the airport and ice-cream vendors were doing a brisk trade.
▪ Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys, others apparently have not.
▪ Top Shop is doing a brisk trade in reefer jackets and A-line car coats.
▪ They have, it seems, been doing a brisk trade.
▪ Hotels and stores are doing a brisk trade in vampire kits.
▪ The public bar was already doing a brisk trade.
walk
▪ Within two or three weeks a brisk walk for a full half-hour becomes an enjoyable experience.
▪ It was on High Street, only a few minutes' brisk walk away.
▪ A brisk walk or jog for half-an-hour will do much more to build stamina than a twelve-second sprint.
▪ A brisk walk, combined with exercise for suppleness, is more suitable.
▪ If you are out at work, a brisk walk at lunch-time might be possible.
▪ A brisk walk will help use up the adrenaline which creates the physical manifestations of nervousness.
▪ After the morning service there was a brisk walk home for lunch which had been prepared and cooked on the Saturday.
▪ It was ten minutes brisk walk to the Embassy, and he was waiting on the corner as Hannele approached.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brisk sales
▪ a brisk fall morning
▪ a brisk walk
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bigwig, with his usual brisk energy, set to work.
▪ It was cooler and grey, and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag.
▪ It was on High Street, only a few minutes' brisk walk away.
▪ The Committee got off to a brisk start at its first meeting.
▪ The hours were long and unpredictable compared with the brisk efficiency of the House.
▪ The musket firing between skirmishers at times was very brisk.
▪ The teakettle made a brisk whistling sound, but John Wade could not bring himself to move.
▪ They gave each other a brisk and publicly conscious dose of affection.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brisk

Brisk \Brisk\ (br[i^]sk), a. [Cf. W. brysg, fr. brys haste, Gael. briosg quick, lively, Ir. broisg a start, leap, jerk.]

  1. 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.
    --Wordworth.

  2. 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 \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
brisk

1550s, as Scottish bruisk, probably an alteration of French brusque (see brusque). Related: Briskly; briskness.

Wiktionary
brisk
  1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. v

  2. (context transitive often with "up" English) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

WordNet
brisk
  1. 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]

  2. imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air" [syn: bracing, energizing, energising, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic]

  3. very active; "doing a brisk business"

brisk

v. become brisk; "business brisked up" [syn: brisk up, brisken]

Wikipedia
Brisk

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 (beverage)

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.