Braw

3 definitions found

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

  Braw \Braw\, a. [See {Brave}, a.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
     1. Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons
        or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new
        gown." --Burns.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  


     2. Good; fine. "A braw night." --Sir W. Scott.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  braw
       adj : brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new
             dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish
             word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds
             with gay plumage" [syn: {brave}, {gay}]

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

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "braw":
     Junoesque, advantageous, agreeable, amply endowed, auspicious,
     becoming, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, bravura,
     bueno, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous,
     capital, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cogent, comely,
     commendable, cosmopolitan, curvaceous, curvy, dapper, daring,
     dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant,
     estimable, excellent, exhibitionistic, expedient, exquisite, fair,
     famous, favorable, fine, flashing, flashy, flaunting, frilly,
     frothy, gallant, gay, genteel, glittering, goddess-like, good,
     good-looking, goodly, grand, healthy, helpful, jaunty, jazzy, kind,
     laudable, likely, lovely to behold, natty, neat, nice, nifty,
     nobby, noble, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pneumatic, posh,
     presentable, profitable, rakish, recherche, regal, ritzy, royal,
     shapely, sharp, showy, sightly, skillful, sleek, slender, smart,
     smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, sound, spiffy,
     splashy, splendid, splurgy, sporty, spruce, stacked, statuesque,
     style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, useful,
     valid, very good, virtuous, well-built, well-dressed, well-favored,
     well-formed, well-groomed, well-made, well-proportioned,
     well-shaped, well-stacked