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brash

  [brash] adjective, -er, -est, noun
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–adjective Also, brashy.
1. impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
2. hasty; rash; impetuous.
3. energetic or highly spirited, esp. in an irreverent way; zesty: a brash new musical.
4. (used esp. of wood) brittle.
–noun
5. a pile or stack of loose fragments or debris, as of rocks or hedge clippings.
6. brash ice.
7. Pathology. heartburn (def. 1).
8. Scot. and North England Dialect.
a. a sudden shower or burst of rain.
b. any sudden, minor sickness or indisposition, esp. of the digestive tract.
c. an assault; attack.
Origin:
1400–50; (n.) late ME brass(c)he a slap, crash, perh. b. brok(e) (OE broc breach, fragment, sickness; akin to break ) and dasch smashing blow; see dash 1 ; (adj.) in sense “brittle,” deriv. of n.; in sense “hasty” by confusion with rash 1

Related forms:
brashly, adverb
brashness, noun

Synonyms:
2. reckless, overhasty, imprudent, foolhardy, precipitate.

Antonyms:
2. cautious, wary, prudent, careful.

brash ice

 
–noun
small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
Also called brash.
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brash 1   (brāsh)   
adj.   brash·er, brash·est
    1. Hasty and unthinking; impetuous.
    2. Rash.
  2. Lacking in sensitivity or tact.
  3. Presumptuously forward; impudent. See Synonyms at shameless.
  4. Brittle: brash timbers.

[Possibly imitative (influenced by rash1) or from brash, attack.]
brash'ly adv., brash'ness n.
brash 2   (brāsh)   
n.  A mass or pile of rubble, refuse, or fragments, as of stone, brush, or ice.

[Perhaps an alteration of French brèche, breach in a wall, from Italian breccia; see breccia.]
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Brash

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

Brash

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

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.
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Language Translation for : brash
Spanish: descarado, impertinente, presuntuoso,
German: keck,
Japanese: 生意気な
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brash 
1824, of obscure origin, originally Amer.Eng.; perhaps akin to Scottish brash "attack, assault" (1533), or Fr. breche "fragments," especially of ice, from a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. brehha "breach," from brehhan "to break"), or to Ger. brechen "to vomit."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: brash
Pronunciation: 'brash
Function: noun
1 : an attack of illness; especially : a short severe illness
2 : WATER BRASH
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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