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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say" [syn: brash, cheeky, nervy]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1566 1. brittle <brash wood> 2. a. heedless of the consequences ; audacious <a brash adventurer> b. done in haste without regard for consequences ; rash <brash acts> 3. a. full of fresh raw vitality <a brash frontier town> b. uninhibitedly energetic or demonstrative ; bumptious <a brash comedian> 4. a. lacking restraint and discernment ; tactless <brash remarks> b. aggressively self-assertive ; impudent <brash to the point of arrogance> 5. piercingly sharp ; harsh <a brash squeal of brakes> 6. marked by vivid contrast ; bold <brash colors> • brashly adverb • brashness noun II. noun Etymology: obsolete English brash to breach a wall Date: 1787 a mass of fragments (as of ice)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj. 1 vulgarly or ostentatiously self-assertive. 2 hasty, rash. 3 impudent. Derivatives: brashly adv. brashness n. Etymology: orig. dial., perh. f. RASH(1) 2. n. 1 loose broken rock or ice. 2 clippings from hedges, shrubs, etc. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. unkn. 3. n. an eruption of fluid from the stomach. Etymology: 16th c., perh. imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brash Brash, n. [See Brash brittle.] 1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. 2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. 3. (Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. --Lyell. 4. Broken fragments of ice. --Kane. Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis. Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brash Brash, a. [Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk.] Hasty in temper; impetuous. --Grose.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brash Brash, a. [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.] Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] --Bartlett.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(brasher, brashest) If you describe someone or their behaviour as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive. On stage she seems hard, brash and uncompromising. ADJ [disapproval] • brashly I brashly announced to the group that NATO needed to be turned around. ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj • brashness He was a typical showman with a brashness bordering on arrogance.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Hasty, rash, impetuous. 2. (Local, U. S.) Brittle, fragile, easily broken.

Moby Thesaurus

abrupt, aggressive, arrogant, audacious, bearish, beastly, biggety, bluff, blunt, bold, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, brusque, bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, churlish, chutzpadik, cocksure, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, curt, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, ebullient, effervescent, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, gruff, harsh, hasty, headlong, high-spirited, hubristic, ill-advised, impertinent, impetuous, impolitic, improvident, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, madcap, maladroit, malapert, nervy, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, precipitate, presuming, presumptuous, pushful, pushing, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, rough, rude, sassy, saucy, self-asserting, self-assertive, severe, sharp, short, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, snippy, surly, tactless, temerarious, thoughtless, truculent, uncalled-for, unchary, undiplomatic, untactful, unwary, uppish, uppity, vivacious, wise-ass