brash

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹæʃ/
  • Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Or perhaps related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”).

Adjective

brash (comparative brasher or more brash, superlative brashest or most brash)

  1. Impetuous or rash.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
  2. Insensitive or tactless.
  3. Impudent or shameless.
Translations

Noun

brash (countable and uncountable, plural brashes)

  1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare American English bresk, brusk (“fragile, brittle”).

Adjective

brash (comparative brasher or more brash, superlative brashest or most brash)

  1. (US, colloquial, dated) Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

Noun

brash (countable and uncountable, plural brashes)

  1. Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
  2. (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Lyell to this entry?)
  3. Broken fragments of ice.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Kane to this entry?)

Further reading

  • brash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Scots

Noun

brash (plural brashes)

  1. illness, fit

Derived terms

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