brash

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -æʃ

Adjective

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

impetuous or rash
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insensitive or tactless
impudent or shameless

Translations

impetuous or rash

Bulgarian: стремителен (bg) (stremitelen)
French: irréfléchi (fr)
German: ungestüm (de)

Russian: стремительный (ru) (stremitelʹnyj)
Spanish: irreflexivo (es), precipitado (es)

insensitive or tactless

Bulgarian: необмислен (bg) (neobmislen), нетактичен (bg) (netaktičen)
French: agressif (fr)
German: taktlos (de)
Polish: nietaktowny (pl)

Russian: нечувствительный (ru) (nečuvstvitelʹnyj), бестактный (ru) (bestaktnyj)
Slovak: bezcitný (sk), netaktný (sk)
Spanish: tosco (es)
Turkish: utanmadan (tr)

impudent or shameless

Bulgarian: нахален (bg) (nahalen), безсрамен (bg) (bezsramen)
French: culotté (fr) (familiar), gonflé (fr) (familiar)
German: ungezogen (de), dreist (de)

Russian: нахальный (ru) (naxalʹnyj), бесстыдный (ru) (besstydnyj)
Turkish: terbiyesiz (tr)

Noun

brash (countable and uncountable; plural brashes)

Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
(geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
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Broken fragments of ice.
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Derived terms

water brash
weaning brash

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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