brusque

Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.

Mr. VValler, being probably of opinion that Monſieur Palamede’s arguments vvere too bruſque to be advanc’d in a diſpute vvith a Lady, vvho number’d not fevver than tvventy Kings of her progenitors, vvrote this poem in a more tender and courtly ſtyle; […]

[A]ll the answer Miss Jarron got was a brusque refusal, followed by Mr. Camperton's retreat from the piano.

Sour, tart.

[T]he thin and bruske harſh vvine doth nouriſh the bodie leſſe, but yet more agreeable and nutritive it is to the ſtomack.

To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner.

Had this been done, Denine had not been bruſqued and carried by Villars at the firſt aſſault, […]

He was indefatigable while he stayed and took true pains, but he brusqued the ministers too much, and I found after he was gone that he had thereby given more offense than I could have imagined.

A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil.