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单词 brainish
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brainishadj.

Brit. /ˈbreɪnɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈbreɪnɪʃ/
Forms: see brain n. and -ish suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: brain n., -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < brain n. + -ish suffix1.
Now rare.
Headstrong, passionate, rash.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impetuosity > [adjective]
brothc1175
impetuous1398
headya1425
brainish1530
hot-brained1556
hot-headed1603
flashy1632
hot-reined1635
scapperboiling1673
warm1749
étourdi1750
torrentuous1840
impulsive1847
unpoised1872
torrential1877
Latin1914
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 307/1 Braynisshe, hedy, folisshe, selfe wylled.
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. To Rdr. sig. A2 v The Worke might in truth be iudged brainish.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. i. 10 And, in this brainish apprehension kills The vnseene good old man. View more context for this quotation
1759 Bailey's New Universal Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) Brainish, hot-headed, furious.
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. x. 9 But fy, thou brainish muse! what mean These vapourings, and brags of what by thee is seen?
1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 104 Thy son..whom, unwittingly of life I reft In a brainish moment.
1958 Dominion-News (Morgantown, W. Va.) 3 May 7/5 A transformation is seen in her character as she strives to emerge from..Madge's brainish kid sister who matches the boys in racing and swimming to a young lady, pretty and demure.
1992 New Scientist 13 June 48/1 In the early days of the cognitive revolution against the reigning ideas of behaviourism, the brainish beginnings of the movement..were swept aside by an ideology that called for ever higher levels of abstraction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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