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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

... drawing of the dump and the opposite hills, we were all out on the platform together, sitting there, under the tented heavens, with the same sense of privacy as if we had been cabined in a parlour, when the sound of brisk footsteps came mounting up the path. We pricked our ears at this, for the tread seemed lighter and firmer than was usual with our country neighbours. And presently, sure enough, two town gentlemen, with cigars and kid ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 2 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the tailor and shoemaker must be had, whatever might be the prices they charged. Mechanics and artisans of every class found their labours in demand, and handsomely paid for. The merchants, also, found trade both brisk and lucrative; while the imports in 1850 were worth only three-quarters of a million, those of three years later were worth about twenty times that amount. After this enormous increase in population and business, it was found that there was quite as great an opportunity ...

— History of Australia and New Zealand - From 1606 to 1890 • Alexander Sutherland

... about to retort angrily and walk away, but his curiosity got the better of him, for just then the boy in the flannels exclaimed in a brisk way: ...

— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn

... heard something that troubled her greatly. An old, grizzled man in a corner of the fireplace where the brisk flames leaped high among the logs, and who seemed to have already eaten his breakfast and was busily stoning an axe blade, looked up as Nan and ...

— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr

... her door, gazing drearily down the long, empty corridor in which the breakfast gong echoed mournfully. All the usual brisk scenes of that hour, groups of girls in Peter Thomson suits or starched shirt-waists, or a pair of energetic ones, red-cheeked and shining-eyed from a run in the snow, had vanished as by the hand of some evil magician. Silent and lonely ...

— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various

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