Definition of Brusting

1. brust [v] - See also: brust

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brusting

bruskly
bruskness
brusque
brusquely
brusqueness
brusquenesses
brusquer
brusquerie
brusqueries
brusquest
brussel sprout
brussels
brussels sprout
brussels sprouts
brust
brusting (current term)
brustle
brustles
brusts
brut
bruta
brutal
brutalisation
brutalisations
brutalise
brutalised
brutalises
brutalising
brutalisms
brutalitarian

Literary usage of Brusting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Trve Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in by John Smith (1819)
"Powhatan and his Dutch-nn brusting with desire to haue the head of Captaine Smith, f< if they could but kill him, they thought all was theirs, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1881)
"brusting-SATURDAY. The Saturday before Shrove-Tuesday, on which day there is eaten frying-pan pudding, made of the same material as a pancake, ..."

3. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"The wisard could no longer beare her bord, But, brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd: ' Glauce, what needes this colourable word To cloke the cause that ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"Nor/A. brusting-SATURDAY. The Saturday before Shrove-Tuesday, on which day there is eaten frying-pan pudding, made of the same material as a pancake, ..."

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