BRAW • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Braw

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

adjective

Braw adj. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)

Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown."

Good; fine. "A braw night."

See images of 'Braw'

Etymology of 'Braw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Braw" Quotes from Famous Books

... said our student, nodding after him. "He's a lawyer in Edinburgh, and a braw hand at the stringin' of verses. Wattie ...

— The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... "Oh yes, its very braw," answered Sandy,—but she could obtain no further expression of admiration from him, for having lived near the loch nearly all his life, he saw nothing ...

— Norman Vallery - How to Overcome Evil with Good • W.H.G. Kingston

... it to me i' pennies an' ha'pennies, Maister Traill. It seems mair, an' mak's a braw jinglin' ...

— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson

... he, evidently surprised at the absurdity of the question, "by his croun, of course. The king has ae braw croun o' white an black fedders, an' I'se reckon ye's never seen a guse like that ava'—hae ye ...

— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... kent it fine, An', Sandy, I'll be sworn The knowledge o' the fac' was mine Or ever I was born; If there be ane wad daur maintain The truth is still to settle, I haena met the madman yet In bonny braw Kingskettle. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 28, 1917 • Various

More quotes...