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adjective

Brash adj. Hasty in temper; impetuous.

Brash adj. Brittle, as wood or vegetables. (Colloq., U. S.)

noun

Brash n.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. (Prov. Eng.)

(Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

Broken fragments of ice.

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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"Brash" Quotes from Famous Books

... was, the words reached the ears of Donna Ana, the ever-present duenna, and she glared at him. This was no way for a brash young Americano to be speaking to the daughter of the great Don Fernandez. Jack caught the glance and laughed. He turned to the duenna and extended ...

— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge

... says, reaching for me to stop me. 'The cooking has got on your head. You listen to me talk before you up and do anything brash.' ...

— The Night-Born • Jack London

... door. "You make me tired!" he said. "You won't let anybody have an opinion without jumping them for it. Wait and see what comes of this before you get so brash! I am going out to the field. Ern is waiting for you there, or perhaps he will meet you in chapel. Nealum told me there was going to be a halt on most of the indoor classes. They want to keep us out in the air. That will give us a lot more time with the planes. Too bad your mother ...

— Battling the Clouds - or, For a Comrade's Honor • Captain Frank Cobb

... manifesting itself between his shoulders and in the region of the loins. Appetite for food had been failing since the first denial of that for opium. The most intense gastric irritability now appeared in the form of an aggravation of the tympanic tightness, corrosive acid ructations, heart-burn, water-brash, and a peculiar sensation, as painful as it is indescribable, of self-consciousness in the whole upper part of the digestive canal. The best idea of this last symptom may be found by supposing all the nerves of involuntary motion which supply ...

— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day

... deriding each other's social arrangements we floated idly townwards and presently came out into the main waterway perhaps a mile wide and flowing rapidly, as streams will on the threshold of the spring, with brash or waste of distant beaches riding down it, and every now and then a broken branch or tree-stem glancing through waves whose crests a fresh wind lifted and sowed in golden showers in the intervening furrows. The Martians seemed ...

— Gulliver of Mars • Edwin L. Arnold

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