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adjective

Brisk adj.

Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. "Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile." "Brisk toil alternating with ready ease."

Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.

Synonyms: Active; lively; agile; alert; nimble; quick; sprightly; vivacious; gay; spirited; animated.

verb

Brisk v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. bricked; pres. part. bricking) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; usually with up.

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Etymology of 'Brisk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Brisk" Quotes from Famous Books

... worst of you married women, Fanny," Miss Graham said, with a little pout. "You get into the way of doing as you are ordered. I call it too bad. Here have we been cruising about for the last fortnight, with scarcely a breath of wind, and longing for a good brisk breeze and a little change and excitement, and now it comes at last, we are to be packed off in a steamer. I call it horrid of you, Mr. Virtue. You may laugh, but ...

— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty

... enemy having crossed the ford, the corps of Sullivan had scarcely had time to form itself on a line in front of a thinly-wooded forest. A few moments after, Lord Cornwallis formed in the finest order: advancing across the plain, his first line opened a brisk fire of musketry and artillery; the Americans returned the fire, and did much injury to the enemy; but their right and left wings having given way, the generals and several officers joined the central division, in which were M. de Lafayette and Stirling, and of which eight ...

— Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette • Lafayette

... look of fresh breezes in the color of her cheeks,—what mortal man could find fault with this innocent jest? Sheila's moments of doubt were succeeded by long hours of joyous confidence, in which a happy light shone on her face. She went through the house with a brisk step; she sang to herself as she went; she was kinder than ever to the small children who came into the square every forenoon, and whose acquaintance she had very speedily made; she gave each of her crossing-sweepers ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various

... "At Valley Hill you were as brisk as a bee, always wanting to help in every thing. Here you seem unwilling to ...

— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge

... rousing box in the ear. I sprang up and pushed him back as he recovered. He slipped on the green ooze of the steps and fell: this was all I saw, for the crowd made a rush and closed. Obed and Mr. Tomlinson had hurried Margit into the boat: I leapt after them: and we pushed off under a brisk shower of dirt and stones. We were soon out of range, and reached ...

— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch

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