Brash

Definition: Brash

Brash

Adjective

1. Offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say".

2. Presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "brash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Health

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Synonyms: Brash

Brittleness

Adjective: brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting. Verb: lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Crosswords: Brash

Manx (a good quantity, brace, extra, fit, impetous, increase, paroxysm, spare).

The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine (1914)

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Books

• Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash Experiment (Commerce and Mass Culture, 1) (reference)

• Alan Brash : voice for unity (reference)

• Brash Endeavor: A Stan Turner Mystery (reference)

• Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena (reference)

• Young + Brash + Abstract: January 18 - March 10, 2002 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Lounge Sensations: Brash & Brassy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Brash ice near Palmer Station at the end of the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "brash": brash fracture ♦ brash oak ♦ water brash ♦ weaning brash. Additional references.

Ending with "brash": less-than-brash.

Albanian

shi i papritur, puçrra në lëkurë, i stuhishëm (blusterous, blustery, dirty, gusty, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, thundery, turbulent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), ‏هش (brittle, crisp, fragile, friable, powdery, short, shortened, tender, tenuous), ‏نوبة مرض (access, turn), ‏عاصفة أو وابل, ‏صياح (crying, hoot, ranting, screaming, screech, shouting, shrieking, vociferous, whooping, yelling), ‏صراخ (exclamation, howl, outcry, ranting, screaming, yelling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стремителен (headlong, heady, impetuous, puffy, slashing, soaring, tearaway, torrential, vehement), чуплив (breakable, brittle, egg shell, fragile, frail, frangible, shivery, short, slight, tender, weak), киселини в стомаха (heartburn), отломки (debris, rubble), натрошени камъни, леко прилошаване, безочлив (assured, audacious, brazenfaced, graceless, immodest, impertinent, impudent, saucy, unabashed, unashamed), прибързан (hasty, headlong, ill-advised, impetuous, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, premature, previous, rash, slapdash, sudden, unthinking, untimely, unwary), порой (debacle, downpour, flash flood, flood, freshet, pour, spate, torrent, volley). (various references)

Chinese 

急性 (Acuteness). (various references)

Czech

drzý (audacious, barefaced, bold, brazen, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert, saucy, smart, unbridled). (various references)

Danish

skovningsaffald (forest residues, groundwood, lap wood, logging residues, slash), hugstaffald (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash). (various references)

Dutch

bosrestanten (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), kapafval (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), houtafval (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), afvalhout (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash). (various references)

Farsi 

متهور 1 (Audacious, Bold, Hardy, Intrepid, Venturer), گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Cheeky, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Perky, Pert, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton), عجول وبی پروا, بی حیا (Indecent), بی شرم (Barefaced, Brassy, Brazen, Immodest, Unabashed). (various references)

Finnish

puun jäte (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), hakkuutähde (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), hakkuujäte (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash). (various references)

French

brulûle d'estomac (water brash), rémanents, rémanent d'exploitation, rémanent, impétueux, déchets forestiers. (various references)

German

dreist (audacious, bold, brave, brazen, brazenly, cheekily, courageous, daring, forward, fresh, impudent, impudently, naughtily, naughty, perkily, perky, presumptuous, unabashed, uppity, valiant), aufdringlich (aggressive, gratingly, importunate, importunately, insistent, intrusive, intrusively, meddlesome, meretricious, obtrusive, obtrusively, pushing, pushy, urgent). (various references)

Greek 

κατάλοιπα υλοτομίας (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), αυθάδησ (arrogant, audacious, brazen, flippant, forward, impertinent, insolent, jackanapes, pert, presumer, presumptuous, sassy, saucy), αυθάδης (pert), ορμητικόσ (dashing, heady, impetuous, impulsive, vehement). (various references)

Hungarian

pimasz (brassy, brazen, cheeky, cocky, forward, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, sassy, saucy, saucy bit), tapintatlan (gauche, inconsiderate, indelicate, indiscreet, indiscrete, pushing, tactless, undiplomatic), szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brassy, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, malapert, naughty, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing), hetyke (assured of the future, cavalier, cocksy, jaunty, perky, pert, rakish). (various references)

Indonesian

lancang (bold, impolite, rude, underbred), kurang ajar (bold, brazen, disrespectful, ill-bred). (various references)

Italian

residui forestali (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), residui di vegetazione tagliata (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), residui di utilizzazione (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), residui di lavorazione (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), insolente (brazen, cheekily, cheeky, defiant, forward, impertinent, insolent, pert, puppyish, rude, sassy, saucily), arrogante (arrogant, assumptive, haughty, overbearing, overweening). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

溜飲 (sour stomach, water brash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りゅうい�" (gloating, satisfaction, sour stomach, water brash). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashbray.(various references)

Portuguese

resíduos de exploração florestal (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), quebradiço (brittle, crisp, crumbly, fragile, frail, friable, powdery), precipitado (cursory, desperate, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-blooded, hurried, hurry, impolitic, imprudent, precipitant, precipitate, previous, rash, unadvised, unthinking, unwary, unwise), mal-estar (discomfort, discommodity, inquietude, malaise, queasiness, uneasiness), imprudente (audacious, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwary, unwise), impertinente (arrogant, cantankerous, currish, impertinent, mumpish, peevish, pernickety, pettish, petulant, querulous, rat, ratty, saucy, snappish, snappy, techy, testy, tetchy), fragmento de gelo, frágil (breakable, brittle, dainty, decayed, decrepit, delicate, dilapidated, fragile, frail, friable, lapsed, pasteboard, rickety, sleazy, tender, weak, weakly, well-made), entulho (gob, mullock, raffle, refuse, rubbish, trash, trumpery), despojos da exploracção florestal (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), despojos (sweepings). (various references)

Russian 

высыпание на коже, внезапный ливень, отрыжка (eructation), порывистый (choppy, fitful, gusty, impetuous, jerky, squally), изжога (epigastric burning, heartburn, pyrosis), дерзкий (audacious, bold, cheeky, cocky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, perky, pert, petulant, presumptuous, reckless, sassy, saucy, tossy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

drzak (audacious, be insolent, brazenfaced, cheeky, daring, flip, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, saucy, temerarious, venturesome), drskost (arrogance, audaciousness, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, lip, nerve, petulance, presumption, temerity). (various references)

Spanish

escombros (debris, rubble). (various references)

Swedish

tanklös (blithe, harebrained, harum scarum, heedless, improvident, inattentive, insensible, light, light-headed, scatter-brained, scatty, thoughtless, unguarded, unthinking), sura uppstötningar, stenskärvor (rubble), skogsavfall (forest residues, groundwood, logging residues, slash), fräck (audacious, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cool, daring, fresh, impertinent, impudent, indecent, insolent, lippy, nervy, rude, saucy, wicked). (various references)

Turkish

yüzsüz (bare faced, barefaced, bold-faced, brassy, brazenfaced, cheeky, conscience-proof, fresh, gay, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard-nosed, Hardy, impudent, nervy, pushful, pushing, ribald, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing), saygısız (discourteous, disregardful, disrespectful, flip, flippant, hoggish, impertinent, impious, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, irreverent, rude, stroppy, undutiful, unfilial, ungalant, unmannerly), sırnaşık (brassy, importunate, intrusive, obtrusive, pushful, pushing, sassy, saucy, smarmy), küstah (arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brassy, cheeky, chesty, cool, flip, flippant, fresh, ill mannered, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, malapert, nervy, overbearing, presuming, presumptuous, stroppy, too familiar, unabashed, wise), kırık kaya parçaları, atılgan (adventuresome, aggressive, bold, dare devil, enterprising, fiery, Hardy, reckless, venturesome), aceleci (hasty, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, hustler, impatient, impetuous, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash, slippy). (various references)

Ukrainian

раптова злива, купа уламків, крихкий (brittle, eager, flimsy, fragile, frail, friable, shivery), висип на шкірі, згага, ламкий (breakable, fragile, frangible), поривчастий (catchy, choppy, fretful, puffy, squally). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hỗn xược (cheeky, contumelious, impudent, saucy), dễ vỡ (breakable, fragile, frangible, porcelain), dễ gãy (brittle, feeble, frangible), đống gạch đá vụn. (various references)

procax. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "brash": brasher, brashes, brashest, brashier, brashiest, brashly, brashness, brashnesses, brashy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Brash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abrash, barsch, barsh, Barsham, basho, brah, braht, Brapho, brasch, brashe, brashs, brath, braz, Bresch, bresy, Brisch, brisq, brosh, brosha, Drazh, Krash, Kryazh, rbas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arbs, bars, bash, bras, rash.

-2 letters: abs, arb, ars, ash, bah, bar, bas, bra, has, rah, ras, sab, sha.

-3 letters: ab, ah, ar, as, ba, ha, sh.

+1 letter: abhors, basher, brachs, brashy, rehabs.

+2 letters: barhops, bashers, bathers, bearish, berthas, bharals, boarish, braches, brahmas, brasher, brashes, brashly, breaths, harbors, herbals, kurbash, mihrabs, rhumbas, sambhar, sambhur, tarbush.

+3 letters: abhenrys, airbrush, ambusher, backrush, bahadurs, bairnish, banisher, barchans, barghest, batchers, bearhugs, becharms, behavers, blathers, boarfish, bodhrans, boshvark, brachets, brackish, brainish, branches, brandish, brashest, brashier, brassish, brattish, breaches, breadths, breathes, brechams, brechans, broaches, broadish, chambers, halberds, halberts, hamburgs, harbours, hauberks, herbages, rhabdoms, rheobase, rhubarbs, sambhars, sambhurs, shabbier, shagbark, sharable, subahdar, subgraph, tarboosh.