brashn.¹

Brit.

/braʃ/, U.S.

/bræʃ/

Forms: Also 1500s brasche.

Etymology: perhaps onomatopoeic, with associations of break, brast, etc. and of crash, dash, etc. In senses 2, 3, perhaps distinct, with other associations, e.g. rash, and splash.

Chiefly dialect.

†1. An attack, assault; a bout. Scottish and northern dialect.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]

fiend-reseOE

frumresec1275

assault1297

sault1297

inracea1300

sailing13..

venuea1330

checkc1330

braid1340

affrayc1380

outrunningc1384

resinga1387

wara1387

riota1393

assailc1400

assayc1400

onset1423

rake?a1425

pursuitc1425

assemblinga1450

brunta1450

oncominga1450

assembly1487

envaya1500

oncomea1500

shovea1500

front1523

scry1523

attemptate1524

assaulting1548

push1565

brash1573

attempt1584

affront?1587

pulse1587

affret1590

saliaunce1590

invasion1591

assailment1592

insultation1596

aggressa1611

onslaught1613

source1616

confronta1626

impulsion1631

tentative1632

essaya1641

infall1645

attack1655

stroke1698

insult1710

coup de main1759

onfall1837

hurrah1841

beat-up of quarters1870

offensive1887

strafe1915

grand slam1916

hop-over1918

run1941

strike1942

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words

bruntc1425

assaultc1449

battery1562

onset1566

brash1573

breach1578

onslaught1613

onfall1646

attack1653

assay?1705

to return to the charge1752

arietation1797

set-to1808

set1829

dead set1835

go-in1858

on-ding1871

hatchet work1938

blitzkrieg1939

blitz1940

carpet bombing1956

bowling1959

1573 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 292 At the bak wall wes the brasche they gaue.

a1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (1821) 195 Curage bydis the brash.

1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie To Rdr. f. 2^v The last brashe was made by a letter of the prime poet of our kingdome.

1724 A. Ramsay Ever-green II. (title) A Brash of Wouing.

2. A slight attack of sickness or indisposition; esp. one arising from a disorder of the alimentary canal. Hence teething-brash, weaning-brash.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun]

unhealc700

untrumnessc897

adleeOE

sicknessc967

cothec1000

unhealthc1000

woe?a1200

ail?c1225

lying?c1225

maladyc1275

unsoundc1275

feebless1297

languora1375

languishc1384

disease1393

aegritudea1400

lamea1400

maleasea1400

soughta1400

wilc1400

malefaction?a1425

firmityc1426

unwholesomenessc1449

ill1450

languenta1500

distemperancea1535

the valley of the shadow of death1535

affect?1537

affection?1541

distemperature1541

inability1547

sickliness1565

languishment1576

cause1578

unhealthfulness1589

crazedness1593

languorment1593

evilness1599

strickenness1599

craziness1602

distemper1604

unsoundness1605

invaletude1623

unhealthiness1634

achaque1647

unwellness1653

disailment1657

insalubrity1668

faintiness1683

queerness1687

invalidity1690

illness1692

ill health1698

ailment1708

illing1719

invalescence1724

peakingness1727

sickishness1727

valetudinariness1742

ailingness1776

brash1786

invalidism1794

poorliness1814

diseasement1826

invalidship1830

valetudinarianism1839

ailing1862

invalidhood1863

megrims1870

pourriture1890

immersement1903

bug1918

condition1920

1786 R. Burns Poems 26 Wae worth that Brandy, burnan trash! Fell source o' monie a pain an' brash!

1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 11 As gin she had ta'en a sudden brash, And were about to die.

3. An eruption of fluid.

a. water-brash: an eructation or belching of water (acid, bitter, etc.) from the stomach, pyrosis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > reflux or regurgitation

upbraiding1541

regurgitation1601

reflux1630

water brash1757

pyrosis1772

rumination1772

water-brash1811

merycism1857

1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. Brash, a sudden sickness, with acid rising into the mouth.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Water Water-brash, a disease..‘Waterbrash, an eruption in the stomach, brought on by drinking grog’.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 138 He is a churl with a soft place in his heart, whose speech is a brash of bitter waters.

1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 52 Brash, an eruption. [Water-brash in most of the E.D.S. northern and north. midl. Glossaries.]

b. A sudden dash or burst of rain. Cf. blash n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > shower > sudden

flash1653

scat17..

volley1737

blirt1810

flurry1828

brash1849

skift1947

1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 684 The wind returned..with an occasional brash of rain.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

brashn.²

Brit.

/braʃ/, U.S.

/bræʃ/

Etymology: perhaps a corrupt form of French brèche; compare Italian breccia of same meaning: but see brash adj.¹

A mass or heap of fragments; applied to (a) loose broken rock forming the highest stratum beneath the soil of certain districts: rubble; (cf. cornbrash n.); (b) fragments of crushed ice, hence brash-ice; (c) refuse boughs or branches, hedge clippings, twigs. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > loose stones

scree1709

brasha1722

ratchel1747

stammerers1793

slithers1805

shingle1959

the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > broken ice

porridge ice1820

brash1837

land-trash1856

trash1856

trash-ice1864

posh1876

rubble1876

a1722 [implied in: E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 106 I have eight or nine acres of brashy ground. (at brashy adj.¹)].

1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 283 The soil a loam, on a stone brash clay.

1837 G. G. Macdougall tr. W. A. Graah Narr. Exped. East Coast Greenland 62 A stream of loose brash-ice proceeding from the ice-blinks.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xiv. 102 Icy fragments or ‘brash’.

1882 in Standard 2 Sept. 2/4 On the light stone brash estates birds are very small and scarce.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

brashadj.¹

Brit.

/braʃ/, U.S.

/bræʃ/

Etymology: perhaps onomatopoeic; ? influenced by break and rash.

Now chiefly in U.S.

Fragile, brittle: used chiefly of timber.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile

bricklec1225

froughc1275

brisel1303

brocklec1315

brittlea1382

fraila1382

brotelc1384

frangiblec1440

frushing1488

bruckle1513

brash1566

breakable1570

weak1581

glassya1591

brake1600

frushy1610

fragilea1616

kexy1641

brickly1670

cracky1725

fractile1727

frush1802

slattery1829

crackable1862

snappable1866

smashable1884

spaulty1895

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > brittle

brash1566

spalt1567

froughya1642

short-grained1694

1566 T. Drant Wailyngs Hieremiah in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Kviij Their cracklinge hydes, britle and brashe, As dryed barke of tree.

c1850 Nat. Encycl. I. 618 Brash, [Americanism] for brittle.

1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 168 A species of oak, very brash when newly cut.

1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Brash, Brittle. In New England..used..of wood or timber that is brittle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

brashadj.²

Etymology: ? Connected with brash adj.¹ or with brash n.¹

a. Hasty, rash, impetuous; (originally U.S.), impulsive, assertive, impudent; crude, insensitive; flashy. Also as adv.Quots. 1837, 1889 are U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > pert or brash

pertc1405

skipjack1598

puppily1682

whelpish1688

saucy1710

owdacious1751

minxing1767

puppyish1775

puppy-like1792

brash1824

pertish1836

cheekish1838

uppish1841

tossy1848

fly1884

soubrettish1891

whipper-snapping1925

in your face1975

1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 24 What a brash raggald!

1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. viii. 120 Strannger thar's as brash as a new hound in a b'ar fight.

1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Brash, hasty.

1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove ii. 27 Ye notice how turrible brash Josiah Preen be,—can't wait fur pa'son ter summons him.

1928 Punch 4 Apr. 374/2 He was going out in his brash street-suit with the flash tie.

1946 J. B. Priestley Bright Day viii. 248 That feeling of inevitable national superiority..which makes decent people seem brash and insensitive.

1948 W. Sansom South 114 The dogs of Italy do not chase cats like their brash northern brothers.

1950 R. Macdougall To Dorothy, a Son in Plays of Year IV. 418 The room has the lurid, brash appearance of an American cocktail bar.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. i. 7 This brash young American little knew what sore places he was invading with his clumsy fingers.

1958 Oxf. Mag. 1 May 390/2 One of those amiable institutions which survive in an alien age until they stand directly challenged by some brash newcomer.

b. Hard, harsh, rough. Also as adv. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harshness > [adjective]

unmildeOE

unmeekc1175

unkindc1325

dure1412

roughc1415

foula1500

harsh1579

untender1608

unsoftened1645

kindless1659

unkind-hearted1760

uncannya1774

unkindly1787

unbeneficent1822

bad-blooded1842

half-hearted1864

brash1868

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough

rudea1375

savagea1393

rougha1398

roid?c1425

brutisha1513

brash1868

roughneck1906

to treat 'em rough1962

1868 Putnam's Mag. Dec. 675/1 See here,..you are playing this a little too brash.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 446.

1880 A. W. Tourgée Bricks without Straw 116 He was pretty brash wid me, an 'llowed ter hit me wid a stick.

1896 G. Ade Artie iii. 23 I swore I'd get next, no matter what kind of a brash play I had to make.

1901 Munsey's Mag. 24 481/1 Ordinarily he had an impudent swagger, and was inclined to be ‘brash’ towards his fellow men.

1904 W. H. Smith Promoters 51 We won't rob 'em entirely; there isn't any use in being altogether too brash.

2. Active, quick. Also as adv. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > brisk or active

sprindeOE

whata1000

braga1350

prestc1390

yarea1400

stirringc1400

startingc1440

actious1441

actuala1470

activea1522

queemc1540

skeetc1540

lively1567

alive-like1582

pragmatical1590

spruce1590

agilious1599

brisk1599

sprightly?c1599

brisky1600

alives-like1601

alacrious1602

smart1602

eyebright1603

whisking1611

deedy1615

vibrant1616

sprunt1631

perking1653

alert1654

exilient1654

alacrative1657

eveillé1676

budge1691

jaunty1705

spry1746

sprack1747

alive1748

high-geared1795

rash1805

spicy1828

live1830

deedful1834

yary1855

sprucy1858

alacritous1859

sprackish1882

brash1884

up-and-coming1889

up and doing1901

loose1907

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed1936

buzzy1978

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adverb] > briskly or actively

quiverlyOE

smartc1300

smartlyc1300

spacklya1350

merrilyc1390

sprackly1393

livelyc1425

activelya1500

busilya1513

allegrement1608

alacriously1609

nippily1650

briskly1665

alertly1725

up and doing1817

pert1859

brash1884

stirringly1889

bobbishly1936

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn viii. 65 When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw.

1888 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Story of Keedon Bluffs 63 Whar's that buckeye tree ye war a-goin ter cut down fur me so brash?

1891 M. E. Ryan Pagan of Alleghanies 118 I ain't so brash in the timber as I'd like to be.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† brashv.¹

Forms: Also 1800s brasch.

Etymology: Compare brash n.¹, also brush v.² and Middle English brissen.

Obsolete.

transitive (and absol.) To assault, attack; to breach (a wall or other defence). Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > penetrate by force > storm or breach walls

brashc1565

force1591

embreach1610

storm1645

open1748

c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1814) 309 (Jam.) His captanes..war all hanged when he had brasched and wone the hous.

a1605 R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. Scotl. (1806) 274 They suld have brashed the wall whair thair batter was made.

1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 195 (Jam.) Whose breast did beare, brash't with displeasure's dart, A bruised spirit and a broken heart.

1638 R. Farley Lychnocausia Death lies in ambush..And brasheth where our sconces weakest be.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

brashv.²

Brit.

/braʃ/, U.S.

/bræʃ/

Etymology: See brash n.² and compare brush v.² 7.

transitive. To remove the lower branches of (a tree). Also with up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop

sneda800

shredc1000

crop?c1225

purgec1384

parea1398

shear1398

shridea1425

dodc1440

polla1449

twist1483

top1509

stow1513

lop1519

bough?1523

head?1523

poll-shred1530

prune1547

prime1565

twig1570

reform1574

disbranch1575

shroud1577

snathe1609

detruncate1623

amputate1638

abnodate1656

duba1661

to strip up1664

reprune1666

pollard1670

shrub1682

log1699

switch1811

limb1835

preen1847

to cut back1871

shrig1873

brash1950

summer prune1980

1950 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 44 72 As a fire precaution..a belt 30 ft. wide should be completely brashed up as soon as possible.

1959 W. K. Richmond Brit. Birds of Prey xiii. 150 Forestry Commission plantations before they have been ‘brashed’.

Derivatives

ˈbrashing n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping

shreddingc1000

putation?1440

snathing1485

loppingc1511

brushing1513

topping1513

twisting1535

pruning1548

heading1552

browsing1574

lop1575

disbranching1600

debranching1601

stocking1611

stowing1618

polling1626

supputation1656

summer pruning1669

snedding1720

shrouding1725

pollarding1794

thinning1800

brashing1950

1950 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 44 75 ‘Brushing up or brashing’ means the removal of the lower boughs up to 5 to 7 ft.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1573

n.²a1722

adj.¹1566

adj.²1824

v.¹c1565

v.²1950

单词	brash
释义	brashn.¹ Brit. /braʃ/, U.S. /bræʃ/ Forms: Also 1500s brasche. Etymology: perhaps onomatopoeic, with associations of break, brast, etc. and of crash, dash, etc. In senses 2, 3, perhaps distinct, with other associations, e.g. rash, and splash. Chiefly dialect. †1. An attack, assault; a bout. Scottish and northern dialect. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] fiend-reseOE frumresec1275 assault1297 sault1297 inracea1300 sailing13.. venuea1330 checkc1330 braid1340 affrayc1380 outrunningc1384 resinga1387 wara1387 riota1393 assailc1400 assayc1400 onset1423 rake?a1425 pursuitc1425 assemblinga1450 brunta1450 oncominga1450 assembly1487 envaya1500 oncomea1500 shovea1500 front1523 scry1523 attemptate1524 assaulting1548 push1565 brash1573 attempt1584 affront?1587 pulse1587 affret1590 saliaunce1590 invasion1591 assailment1592 insultation1596 aggressa1611 onslaught1613 source1616 confronta1626 impulsion1631 tentative1632 essaya1641 infall1645 attack1655 stroke1698 insult1710 coup de main1759 onfall1837 hurrah1841 beat-up of quarters1870 offensive1887 strafe1915 grand slam1916 hop-over1918 run1941 strike1942 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words bruntc1425 assaultc1449 battery1562 onset1566 brash1573 breach1578 onslaught1613 onfall1646 attack1653 assay?1705 to return to the charge1752 arietation1797 set-to1808 set1829 dead set1835 go-in1858 on-ding1871 hatchet work1938 blitzkrieg1939 blitz1940 carpet bombing1956 bowling1959 1573 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 292 At the bak wall wes the brasche they gaue. a1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (1821) 195 Curage bydis the brash. 1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie To Rdr. f. 2^v The last brashe was made by a letter of the prime poet of our kingdome. 1724 A. Ramsay Ever-green II. (title) A Brash of Wouing. 2. A slight attack of sickness or indisposition; esp. one arising from a disorder of the alimentary canal. Hence teething-brash, weaning-brash. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] unhealc700 untrumnessc897 adleeOE sicknessc967 cothec1000 unhealthc1000 woe?a1200 ail?c1225 lying?c1225 maladyc1275 unsoundc1275 feebless1297 languora1375 languishc1384 disease1393 aegritudea1400 lamea1400 maleasea1400 soughta1400 wilc1400 malefaction?a1425 firmityc1426 unwholesomenessc1449 ill1450 languenta1500 distemperancea1535 the valley of the shadow of death1535 affect?1537 affection?1541 distemperature1541 inability1547 sickliness1565 languishment1576 cause1578 unhealthfulness1589 crazedness1593 languorment1593 evilness1599 strickenness1599 craziness1602 distemper1604 unsoundness1605 invaletude1623 unhealthiness1634 achaque1647 unwellness1653 disailment1657 insalubrity1668 faintiness1683 queerness1687 invalidity1690 illness1692 ill health1698 ailment1708 illing1719 invalescence1724 peakingness1727 sickishness1727 valetudinariness1742 ailingness1776 brash1786 invalidism1794 poorliness1814 diseasement1826 invalidship1830 valetudinarianism1839 ailing1862 invalidhood1863 megrims1870 pourriture1890 immersement1903 bug1918 condition1920 1786 R. Burns Poems 26 Wae worth that Brandy, burnan trash! Fell source o' monie a pain an' brash! 1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 11 As gin she had ta'en a sudden brash, And were about to die. 3. An eruption of fluid. a. water-brash: an eructation or belching of water (acid, bitter, etc.) from the stomach, pyrosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > reflux or regurgitation upbraiding1541 regurgitation1601 reflux1630 water brash1757 pyrosis1772 rumination1772 water-brash1811 merycism1857 1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. Brash, a sudden sickness, with acid rising into the mouth. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Water Water-brash, a disease..‘Waterbrash, an eruption in the stomach, brought on by drinking grog’. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 138 He is a churl with a soft place in his heart, whose speech is a brash of bitter waters. 1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 52 Brash, an eruption. [Water-brash in most of the E.D.S. northern and north. midl. Glossaries.] b. A sudden dash or burst of rain. Cf. blash n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > shower > sudden flash1653 scat17.. volley1737 blirt1810 flurry1828 brash1849 skift1947 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 684 The wind returned..with an occasional brash of rain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brashn.² Brit. /braʃ/, U.S. /bræʃ/ Etymology: perhaps a corrupt form of French brèche; compare Italian breccia of same meaning: but see brash adj.¹ A mass or heap of fragments; applied to (a) loose broken rock forming the highest stratum beneath the soil of certain districts: rubble; (cf. cornbrash n.); (b) fragments of crushed ice, hence brash-ice; (c) refuse boughs or branches, hedge clippings, twigs. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > loose stones scree1709 brasha1722 ratchel1747 stammerers1793 slithers1805 shingle1959 the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > broken ice porridge ice1820 brash1837 land-trash1856 trash1856 trash-ice1864 posh1876 rubble1876 a1722 [implied in: E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 106 I have eight or nine acres of brashy ground. (at brashy adj.¹)]. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 283 The soil a loam, on a stone brash clay. 1837 G. G. Macdougall tr. W. A. Graah Narr. Exped. East Coast Greenland 62 A stream of loose brash-ice proceeding from the ice-blinks. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xiv. 102 Icy fragments or ‘brash’. 1882 in Standard 2 Sept. 2/4 On the light stone brash estates birds are very small and scarce. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brashadj.¹ Brit. /braʃ/, U.S. /bræʃ/ Etymology: perhaps onomatopoeic; ? influenced by break and rash. Now chiefly in U.S. Fragile, brittle: used chiefly of timber. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile bricklec1225 froughc1275 brisel1303 brocklec1315 brittlea1382 fraila1382 brotelc1384 frangiblec1440 frushing1488 bruckle1513 brash1566 breakable1570 weak1581 glassya1591 brake1600 frushy1610 fragilea1616 kexy1641 brickly1670 cracky1725 fractile1727 frush1802 slattery1829 crackable1862 snappable1866 smashable1884 spaulty1895 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > brittle brash1566 spalt1567 froughya1642 short-grained1694 1566 T. Drant Wailyngs Hieremiah in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Kviij Their cracklinge hydes, britle and brashe, As dryed barke of tree. c1850 Nat. Encycl. I. 618 Brash, [Americanism] for brittle. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 168 A species of oak, very brash when newly cut. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Brash, Brittle. In New England..used..of wood or timber that is brittle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brashadj.² Etymology: ? Connected with brash adj.¹ or with brash n.¹ 1. a. Hasty, rash, impetuous; (originally U.S.), impulsive, assertive, impudent; crude, insensitive; flashy. Also as adv.Quots. 1837, 1889 are U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > pert or brash pertc1405 skipjack1598 puppily1682 whelpish1688 saucy1710 owdacious1751 minxing1767 puppyish1775 puppy-like1792 brash1824 pertish1836 cheekish1838 uppish1841 tossy1848 fly1884 soubrettish1891 whipper-snapping1925 in your face1975 1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 24 What a brash raggald! 1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. viii. 120 Strannger thar's as brash as a new hound in a b'ar fight. 1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Brash, hasty. 1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove ii. 27 Ye notice how turrible brash Josiah Preen be,—can't wait fur pa'son ter summons him. 1928 Punch 4 Apr. 374/2 He was going out in his brash street-suit with the flash tie. 1946 J. B. Priestley Bright Day viii. 248 That feeling of inevitable national superiority..which makes decent people seem brash and insensitive. 1948 W. Sansom South 114 The dogs of Italy do not chase cats like their brash northern brothers. 1950 R. Macdougall To Dorothy, a Son in Plays of Year IV. 418 The room has the lurid, brash appearance of an American cocktail bar. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. i. 7 This brash young American little knew what sore places he was invading with his clumsy fingers. 1958 Oxf. Mag. 1 May 390/2 One of those amiable institutions which survive in an alien age until they stand directly challenged by some brash newcomer. b. Hard, harsh, rough. Also as adv. U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harshness > [adjective] unmildeOE unmeekc1175 unkindc1325 dure1412 roughc1415 foula1500 harsh1579 untender1608 unsoftened1645 kindless1659 unkind-hearted1760 uncannya1774 unkindly1787 unbeneficent1822 bad-blooded1842 half-hearted1864 brash1868 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough rudea1375 savagea1393 rougha1398 roid?c1425 brutisha1513 brash1868 roughneck1906 to treat 'em rough1962 1868 Putnam's Mag. Dec. 675/1 See here,..you are playing this a little too brash. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 446. 1880 A. W. Tourgée Bricks without Straw 116 He was pretty brash wid me, an 'llowed ter hit me wid a stick. 1896 G. Ade Artie iii. 23 I swore I'd get next, no matter what kind of a brash play I had to make. 1901 Munsey's Mag. 24 481/1 Ordinarily he had an impudent swagger, and was inclined to be ‘brash’ towards his fellow men. 1904 W. H. Smith Promoters 51 We won't rob 'em entirely; there isn't any use in being altogether too brash. 2. Active, quick. Also as adv. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > brisk or active sprindeOE whata1000 braga1350 prestc1390 yarea1400 stirringc1400 startingc1440 actious1441 actuala1470 activea1522 queemc1540 skeetc1540 lively1567 alive-like1582 pragmatical1590 spruce1590 agilious1599 brisk1599 sprightly?c1599 brisky1600 alives-like1601 alacrious1602 smart1602 eyebright1603 whisking1611 deedy1615 vibrant1616 sprunt1631 perking1653 alert1654 exilient1654 alacrative1657 eveillé1676 budge1691 jaunty1705 spry1746 sprack1747 alive1748 high-geared1795 rash1805 spicy1828 live1830 deedful1834 yary1855 sprucy1858 alacritous1859 sprackish1882 brash1884 up-and-coming1889 up and doing1901 loose1907 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed1936 buzzy1978 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adverb] > briskly or actively quiverlyOE smartc1300 smartlyc1300 spacklya1350 merrilyc1390 sprackly1393 livelyc1425 activelya1500 busilya1513 allegrement1608 alacriously1609 nippily1650 briskly1665 alertly1725 up and doing1817 pert1859 brash1884 stirringly1889 bobbishly1936 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn viii. 65 When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw. 1888 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Story of Keedon Bluffs 63 Whar's that buckeye tree ye war a-goin ter cut down fur me so brash? 1891 M. E. Ryan Pagan of Alleghanies 118 I ain't so brash in the timber as I'd like to be. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † brashv.¹ Forms: Also 1800s brasch. Etymology: Compare brash n.¹, also brush v.² and Middle English brissen. Obsolete. transitive (and absol.) To assault, attack; to breach (a wall or other defence). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > penetrate by force > storm or breach walls brashc1565 force1591 embreach1610 storm1645 open1748 c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1814) 309 (Jam.) His captanes..war all hanged when he had brasched and wone the hous. a1605 R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. Scotl. (1806) 274 They suld have brashed the wall whair thair batter was made. 1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 195 (Jam.) Whose breast did beare, brash't with displeasure's dart, A bruised spirit and a broken heart. 1638 R. Farley Lychnocausia Death lies in ambush..And brasheth where our sconces weakest be. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). brashv.² Brit. /braʃ/, U.S. /bræʃ/ Etymology: See brash n.² and compare brush v.² 7. transitive. To remove the lower branches of (a tree). Also with up. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop sneda800 shredc1000 crop?c1225 purgec1384 parea1398 shear1398 shridea1425 dodc1440 polla1449 twist1483 top1509 stow1513 lop1519 bough?1523 head?1523 poll-shred1530 prune1547 prime1565 twig1570 reform1574 disbranch1575 shroud1577 snathe1609 detruncate1623 amputate1638 abnodate1656 duba1661 to strip up1664 reprune1666 pollard1670 shrub1682 log1699 switch1811 limb1835 preen1847 to cut back1871 shrig1873 brash1950 summer prune1980 1950 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 44 72 As a fire precaution..a belt 30 ft. wide should be completely brashed up as soon as possible. 1959 W. K. Richmond Brit. Birds of Prey xiii. 150 Forestry Commission plantations before they have been ‘brashed’. Derivatives ˈbrashing n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping shreddingc1000 putation?1440 snathing1485 loppingc1511 brushing1513 topping1513 twisting1535 pruning1548 heading1552 browsing1574 lop1575 disbranching1600 debranching1601 stocking1611 stowing1618 polling1626 supputation1656 summer pruning1669 snedding1720 shrouding1725 pollarding1794 thinning1800 brashing1950 1950 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 44 75 ‘Brushing up or brashing’ means the removal of the lower boughs up to 5 to 7 ft. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1573n.²a1722adj.¹1566adj.²1824v.¹c1565v.²1950
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