brute, bruit

Brute or brute means a beast or nonhuman creature--
Take that, you brute!
He behaved like a brute; she may never speak to him again.

Brute may also mean irrational or merely carnal--
He overcame the felon by brute force.
Some people believe that brute cunning is superior to human reason.

Bruit or bruit ( from the French, rhymes with brute ) means to spread a rumor--
He may bruit it about, but no one will believe him.
You should not bruit something about unless you can prove that it is true.

Bruit may also mean an unusual noise--
They are a quiet couple, unlike the bruit that surrounds them.
The doctor wondered if the bruit he heard could have been caused by stress, and not by disease.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"She may bruit it about that he is a brute if she sees him in this state; let's move on."

Note--"brut" means