What does brash mean?
Definitions for brash
bræʃbrash
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word brash.
Princeton's WordNet
brash, cheeky, nervyadjective
offensively bold
"a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"
Wiktionary
brashnoun
Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
brashadjective
impetuous or rash
brashadjective
insensitive or tactless
brashadjective
impudent or shameless
ChatGPT
brash
Brash typically refers to self-assertive in an aggressive, rude or noisy way. It can also be used to describe something as striking or noticeable in an excessively flashy, bright, or bold manner. In case of objects, it can mean hasty or rushed, without due thought or consideration.
Webster Dictionary
Brashadjective
hasty in temper; impetuous
Brashadjective
brittle, as wood or vegetables
Brashnoun
a rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness
Brashnoun
refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges
Brashnoun
broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits
Brashnoun
broken fragments of ice
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Brash
brash, n. broken and angular fragments of rock which occasionally form the basement bed of alluvial deposits: fragments of crushed ice: clippings of hedges or trees.—adj. Brash′y. [Prob. Fr. brèche.]
Brash
brash, n. a slight attack of illness: an eructation or belching of acid water from the stomach—water-brash: a sudden burst of rain: (obs.) an attack.—v.t. to disturb. [Scot.; prob. onomatopœic.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
brash
Small fragments of crushed ice, collected by wind or currents, near the shore; or such that the ship can easily force through.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BRASH
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Brash is ranked #38265 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Brash surname appeared 579 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Brash.
82.7% or 479 total occurrences were White.
7.2% or 42 total occurrences were Black.
3.9% or 23 total occurrences were Asian.
3.4% or 20 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2.5% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Anagrams for brash »
shrab
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of brash in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of brash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of brash in a Sentence
He wants to look like the brash young guy who is taking the world by storm...He wears this Beatles style haircut, but it doesn't quite work.
I was surprised Alpo was being that bold and brash – the dude is not bulletproof, a lot of these Mafia mobsters are on YouTube or the internet as well-known informants enjoying their notoriety and their infamy on social media but they’re even not going back to where they’re from.
Today life is going through unstable paces, animals slaved in cages and food exhibited in show-cases. We eat trash, our language is brash, life is a dash and humanity is about to crash. Black is cash, party is a bash and cleansing is just a splash. Wake up, come back to nature or else a human being will just be reduced to a caricature . Let your life be naturalized, get MickeyMized.
I think the problem for Wallis really was that she was brash, she would walk into a room and say, 'Hi, I'm Wallis.' She'd wear lots of jewelry. She'd talk about money.
These particular organisms looks to be shared between Neanderthals and humans about 120,000 year ago, or about the time that humans and Neandertals were interbreeding, these interbreeding encounters were often described as brash, rough one-night stands, but if they were swapping oral microorganisms, it means they were also swapping spit. So, potentially kissing or food sharing would have been involved, which suggests that these encounters may have been much more friendly than anyone imagined.
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- необмислен, нахален, стремителен, безсрамен, нетактиченBulgarian
- dreist, taktlos, ungestüm, ungezogenGerman
- tosco, irreflexivo, precipitadoSpanish
- irréfléchi, agressif, gonflé, culottéFrench
- 勇敢なJapanese
- nietaktownyPolish
- нахальный, стремительный, бестактный, бесстыдный, нечувствительныйRussian
- netaktný, bezcitnýSlovak
- terbiyesiz, utanmadanTurkish
- 性急的Chinese
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