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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brash \Brash\, a. [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.] Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brash \Brash\, n. [See Brash brittle.] 1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. [1913 Webster] 2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. [1913 Webster] 3. (Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. --Lyell. [1913 Webster] 4. Broken fragments of ice. --Kane. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brash \Brash\ (br[a^]sh), a. [Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk.] Hasty in temper; impetuous. --Grose. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brash 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "brash": 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