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Definition of Brisk up
1. Verb. Become brisk. "Business brisked up"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brisk Up
Literary usage of Brisk up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Routledge's French-English and English-French Dictionary (1887)
"... al-moos-ti/-ai, v, a. to brisk up. , Encaissement, ал-kay-sma«, m. packing or
laying s'—, vr to be moved, troubled, ..."
2. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon (1821)
"... vr lo recover, gather ne» strength ; * pick up one's crumbs. RAVIVER , va to
revive , brisk up. ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"But you must brisk up as we go through the village, or they'll give us credit for
... I tell her she must brisk up a bit before then ; she complained of not ..."
4. Glossary of Supposed Americanisms by Alfred Langdon Elwyn (1859)
"brisk up. " Come, brisk up," applied to one who seems sad; also, "he's brisken
up at last," are frequent in New England. The last expression is in the ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"E. spurk, brisk, smart. Come spurk up, here's your sweetheart a-coming. Moor.
To spurk up, to spring, shoot, or brisk up. ..."
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