brash

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}]
    

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.
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Brash \Brash\, a. [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.]
   Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] --Bartlett.
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Brash \Brash\, n. [See {Brash} brittle.]
   1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
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   2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
      [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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   3. (Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying
      alluvial deposits. --Lyell.
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   4. Broken fragments of ice. --Kane.
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   {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.
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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