brash
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Is brash a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.Examples: "a brash young businessman; a brash tabloid; a brash sense of humour"; "Mrs. Mayfield looked away, and the girl stricken with remorse, hastened to her and said: “There, I have been too brash, haven’t I? You must forgive me for I didn’t intend to be brash.” “Brash, my dear? What do you mean by that?” She laughed. “Why, I thought everybody know’d what brash meant. Well, it’s er—too quick to say somethin’ you oughtn’t to say.”"; "Trouble with Silzer is, he’s too brash—shoots off his mouth too much—likes to hear himself talk."Synonyms: audacious, brassy, brazen, cocky, undiplomatic
2. (of actions) Overly bold, impetuous or rash.Examples: "[…] just because you’re a little hot under the collar, don’t do anything brash, for fear you may regret it afterward."; "Now, Mr. Reed, you’ve committed nothing but a brash act of bad taste by bypassing the standard channels."Synonyms: foolhardy, reckless
3. (of things) Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.Examples: "brash colours"; "a brash perfume"; "1963, Ian Fleming, Thrilling Cities, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 1, “Hong Kong,” There are scores of brash and noisy bars along Lockhart Street and in Wanchai and North Point (on the island) and throughout the back lanes of Kowloon […]"Synonyms: flashy, garish, loud, splashy, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) An attack or assault.countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To disturb.obsoletetransitive
adj (English)
1. (US, colloquial, dated) Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).Examples: "Hickory axles […] all cut from tough butt logs. Brash timber is excluded."; "Brash wood, when tested in bending, breaks with a short, sharp fracture instead of developing a splintering failure and absorbs a comparatively small amount of work between the elastic limit and final failure"; "[…] brash timber, which is liable to snap; […]"UScolloquialdated
noun (English)
1. (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.Examples: "Alluvium differs from the rubble or brash, just described, as being composed of sand and gravel, more or less rolled"countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary