Word Confusion: Bruit vs Brut vs Brute

Plural for the noun: bruits
Gerund: bruiting

Third person present verb: bruits
Past tense or past participle: bruited
Present participle: bruiting

Plural for the noun: brut

Plural for the noun: brutes

Third person present verb: brutes
Past tense or past participle: bruted
Present participle: bruting

[Medicine] A sound, especially an abnormal one, heard through a stethoscope

• A murmur

[Archaic] A noise

• Din
• Clamor

Verb, transitive:
Spread (a report or rumor) widely

To voice abroad

• [Used chiefly in the passive and often followed by about] Rumor

• Very dry

Noun:
Any of a number of partly legendary, partly historical chronicles dealing with early English history, written during the Middle Ages and usually beginning with Brutus, the mythic and eponymous ancestor of the country ²

• Without reason or intelligence
• Merely physical
• Harsh, fundamental, or inescapable

[Prenominal] Wholly instinctive or physical

Coarse and grossly sensual

Noun:
A savagely violent person or animal ¹

• [Informal] A cruel, unpleasant, or insensitive person
• An animal as opposed to a human being
• Something awkward, difficult, or unpleasant

Verb, transitive:
To shape (a diamond) by rubbing with another diamond or a diamond chip ²

I take no pleasure in the bruit of the day.

Verb, transitive:
I didn’t want to have our relationship bruited about the office.

The report was bruited through the village.

“They bruit of wars — that thunder heard in dreams; Huge insurrections, and dynastic changes Resolved in blood” (Woolner).

It was bruited about that the king was dead.

The Cuvee Des Ambassadeurs, the wine of choice in the Elysee Palace, is a 50/50 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir champagne in a zesty and bright brut style.

Aperitifs range from Rp 18,000 for a Martini to Rp 60,000 for a glass of champagne brut.

She transformed the business into a major champagne house by identifying the market for a brut style of champagne, much less sweet than was the fashion.

The best-known brands are the medium dry Carta Nevada, launched in 1951, and Cordon Negro, a brut Cava in a distinctive black bottle.

Noun:
An English Chronicle founded on the Brut, and brought up to date” (Vickers).

“Wace, the Norman-French trouvere, dedicated to her his Brut” (Warner).

We achieve little by brute force.

Look, these are the brute necessities of basic subsistence.

It was brute sex.

Noun:
It was no brute Detective MacCauley was pursuing.

He’s naught but a vicious brute.

Manny is a brute, Helen. He’s never going to change.

He was a cold-blooded brute.

What an unfeeling little brute you are.

Jaysus, that’s a great brute of a machine.

Verb, transitive:
An industrial-quality diamond is mounted in the end of the stick, and the stick is held by hand against the gem diamond, forcibly contacting the stone to slowly brute the material away.

Always use a lower-quality diamond to brute the better quality one.

1. French, literally meaning raw, rough.
2. 1300–50, Middle English from the Old French, which is from the Medieval Latin Brūtus.

1. Late Middle English (as an adjective) is from the Old French brut(e), which is from the Latin brutus meaning dull, stupid.
2. Back formation from bruting meaning a rough hewing (of a diamond), which is a partial translation of the French brutage literally meaning a roughing, and equivalent to brut meaning rough, raw, (brute + -age).