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Definition of rusk noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rusk

noun

/rʌsk/

/rʌsk/

(especially British English)

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Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Spanish or Portuguese rosca ‘twist, coil, roll of bread’, of unknown ultimate origin.

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