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rash

1[rash]
–adjective -er, -est.
1. acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
2. characterized by or showing too great haste or lack of consideration: rash promises.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; c. D, G rasch quick, brisk, ON rǫskr brave


rashly, adverb
rashness, noun


1. hasty, impetuous, reckless, venturous, incautious, precipitate, indiscreet, foolhardy.


1. cautious.

rash

2[rash]
–noun
1. an eruption or efflorescence on the skin.
2. a multitude of instances of something occurring more or less during the same period of time: a rash of robberies last month.

Origin:
1700–10; < F rache (obs.), OF rasche skin eruption, deriv. of raschier to scratch, ult. < L rādere to scratch


rashlike, adjective
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rash 1   (rāsh)   
adj.   rash·er, rash·est
  1. Characterized by or resulting from ill-considered haste or boldness. See Synonyms at reckless.

  2. Archaic Quick in producing a strong or marked effect.


[Middle English rasch, active, unrestrained, perhaps from Old English -raesc (in līgræsc, lightning) or from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German rasch, fast.]
rash'ly adv., rash'ness n.
rash 2   (rāsh)   
n.  
  1. A skin eruption.

  2. An outbreak of many instances within a brief period: a rash of burglaries.


[Possibly from obsolete French rache, a sore, from Old French rasche, scurf, from raschier, to scrape, scratch, from Vulgar Latin *rāsicāre, from Latin rāsus, past participle of rādere; see rēd- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

rash  (adj.)
c.1300, "nimble, quick, vigorous," a Scottish and northern word, perhaps from O.E. -ræsc (cf. ligræsc "flash of lightning"), from P.Gmc. *raskuz (cf. M.L.G. rasch, M.Du. rasc "quick, swift," Ger. rasch "quick, fast"). Related to O.E. horsc "quick-witted." Sense of "reckless, impetuous, heedless of consequences" is attested from 1509.

rash  (n.)
"red spots on skin," 1709, perhaps from Fr. rache "a sore," from O.Fr. rache "ringworm," from V.L. *rasicare "to scrape" (cf. O.Prov. rascar, Sp. rascar "to scrape, scratch," It. raschina "itch"), from L. rasus "scraped," pp. of radere "to scrape" (see raze). The connecting notion is of itching. Sense of "any sudden outbreak or proliferation" first recorded 1820.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: rash
Pronunciation: 'rash
Function: noun
: an eruption on the body typically with little or no elevation above the surface
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Medical Dictionary

rash (rāsh)
n.
A skin eruption.

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