rusk

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese rosca a twist or roll of bread.

Noun

rusk (plural rusks or -)

Zwieback

1. a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
   • 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     ...he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.

2. a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
3. a childrens weening food
4. a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

Synonyms

• Brussels biscuit
• twice-baked bread
• zwieback

Translations

light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven

• Afrikaans: beskuit
• Czech: suchar m
• Danish: tvebak, krydder, skorpe
• Dutch: beschuit Template:f, scheepsbeschuit Template:f
• Finnish: korppu (fi)
• French: biscotte (fr), biscotin (fr)
• German: Zwieback (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: παξιμάδι (el) n (paximádi), φρυγανιά (el) f (fryganiá)
• Ido: biskoto
• Italian: biscotto (it), fetta biscottata
• Russian: (сдобный / сладкий) сухарь ((sdóbnyj / sládkij) sukhár’) ; галета (galéta) Template:f
• Spanish: bizcocho , biscote
• Swedish: skorpa (sv) c

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [rʊsk]

Noun

rusk Template:n

1. waste, rubbish, garbage

Declension

Declension of rusk
n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rusk	ruskið	rusk	ruskini
accusative	rusk	ruskið	rusk	ruskini
dative	ruski	ruskinum	ruskum	ruskunum
genitive	rusks	rusksins	ruska	ruskanna

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Norwegian

Noun

1. waste, rubbish, garbage