Brash

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brash \Brash\ (br[a^]sh), a. [Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh,
     sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk.]
     Hasty in temper; impetuous. --Grose.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Brash \Brash\, a. [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.]
     Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] --Bartlett.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brash \Brash\, n. [See {Brash} brittle.]
     1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
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     2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
        [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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     3. (Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying
        alluvial deposits. --Lyell.
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     4. Broken fragments of ice. --Kane.
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     {Water brash} (Med.), an affection characterized by a
        spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a
        rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis.
  
     {Weaning brash} (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which
        sometimes attacks children just weaned.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brash
       adj 1: offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old
              rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to
              say" [syn: {cheeky}, {nervy}]
       2: presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the
          right stuff" [syn: {daredevil}, {temerarious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "brash":
     abrupt, aggressive, arrogant, audacious, bearish, beastly, biggety,
     bluff, blunt, bold, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, brusque,
     bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, churlish, chutzpadik,
     cocksure, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, curt, daring, defiant,
     defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful,
     ebullient, effervescent, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh,
     gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, gruff, harsh, hasty, headlong,
     high-spirited, hubristic, ill-advised, impertinent, impetuous,
     impolitic, improvident, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious,
     inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, madcap,
     maladroit, malapert, nervy, overbold, overcareless, overconfident,
     oversure, overweening, pert, precipitate, presuming, presumptuous,
     pushful, pushing, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences,
     rough, rude, sassy, saucy, self-asserting, self-assertive, severe,
     sharp, short, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, snippy, surly,
     tactless, temerarious, thoughtless, truculent, uncalled-for,
     unchary, undiplomatic, untactful, unwary, uppish, uppity,
     vivacious, wise-ass