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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Brash \Brash\, a. [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.]
Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] --Bartlett.
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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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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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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