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Definition: Braw |
BrawAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "braw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Note: Braw \Braw\, adjective. [See Brave,]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: BrawSynonyms: brave (adj), gay (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Braw |
| Non-English Usage: "Braw" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (alarm, dread, fright, terror). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
braw | 10 |
braw christian | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "braw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | bem vestido (silk stocking, Spruce, trig, trim, well-dressed), fino (choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, fine, gallant, gaunt, gentian, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, Nobby, out and out, posit, refined, select, sharp, sheer, sleazy, slender, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tasteful, tenuous, thin, well bred, well-made, wispy), elegante (attic, beau, brave, cheesy, chic, dainty, Dandy, dapper, dink, dinky, elegant, fashionable, feather, fete, flotage, gentlemanly, graceful, handsome, informed, jimp, knowing, ladylike, light, natty, neat, nifty, Nobby, paste, polished glass, polite, posh, silk stocking, slim, smart, spicy, Spruce, stylish, tasteful, tasty, Tony, trig, trim). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "braw": brawer, brawest, brawl, brawled, brawler, brawlers, brawlie, brawlier, brawliest, brawling, brawls, brawly, brawn, brawnier, brawniest, brawnily, brawniness, brawninesses, brawns, brawny, braws. (additional references) | |
Words containing "braw": outbrawl, outbrawled, outbrawling, outbrawls, zebrawood, zebrawoods. (additional references) | |
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"Braw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barw, Barwah, baw, Bawu, beaw, blaw, bor, braiw, braow, bravw, brawd, braws, brawt, brewt, brewy, briw, Brrap, fraw. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "aw": Craw, Scraw, Shaw, Snaw, Spaw, Staw, Wraw. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-r-w" | |
-1 letter: arb, bar, bra, raw, wab, war. | |
-2 letters: ab, ar, aw, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-r-w" | |
+1 letter: brawl, brawn, braws. | |
+2 letters: barlow, barrow, bawdry, bawler, beware, bewrap, bewray, brawer, brawls, brawly, brawns, brawny, warble. | |
+3 letters: bagworm, barlows, barrows, barware, bawdier, bawdric, bawlers, becrawl, bedward, bedwarf, beswarm, bewared, bewares, beweary, bewraps, bewrapt, bewrays, bradawl, brawest, brawled, brawler, brawlie, brewage, bulwark, crowbar, drawbar, rainbow, rowable, rowboat, swabber, wabbler, warbled, warbler, warbles, wirable, workbag. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 61 77 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01100001 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r a w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0061 0077 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36846789 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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