brash
Plural: brashes
Adjective Satellite
- offensively bold
- "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"
Adj
- Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.
- Overly bold, impetuous or rash.
- Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.
- Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).
Noun
- A mass of broken fragments, especially of ice or rock.
- A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
- A sudden burst of rain.
- An attack or assault.
- Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
- Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
- Broken fragments of ice.
Verb
- To disturb.
Adjective
- Self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way; impetuous.
Examples
- a brash perfume
- a brash young businessman; a brash tabloid; a brash sense of humour
- brash colours
- His BRASH play opened up a triple word score, but also a dangerous lane for me.
- The tiles left on the board were a BRASH of consonants, impossible to form words with.
Origin / Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”).
Synonyms
cheeky, nervy, audacious, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, brassy, brazen, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, cocky, crass, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, foolhardy, froufrou, garish, gauche, gaudy, gay, glaring, gross, gussied up, hideous, kitschy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizazzy, pretentious, raffish, reckless, ritzy, showy, snazzy, splashy, splendiferous, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, too much, unbecoming, undiplomatic, untasteful, vain, whorish, zesty
Scrabble Score: 10
brash: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbrash: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brash: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary