Thesaurus: brash

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1. a. Hasty in temper; impetuous.
2. a. Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
3. n. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
4. n. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
5. n. Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
6. n. Broken fragments of ice.
7. adj. offensively bold
8. Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose. Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett. 1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. 2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. 3. (Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell. 4. Broken fragments of ice. Kane. 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.
9. Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.