Dictionary Definition
brash adj
1 offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed
the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to
say" [syn: cheeky,
nervy]
2 presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot
having the right stuff" [syn: daredevil, temerarious]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æʃ
Translations
impetuous or rash
- German: ungestüm
insensitive or tactless
- German: taktlos
impudent or shameless
- German: ungezogen
Noun
- Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
Extensive Definition
Brash may refer to:
- Brash Entertainment, a video game company
- Thomas Brash Morison (1868-1945), Scottish politician and judge
People with the surname Brash:
- Alan Brash (1913-2002), leading minister of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Don Brash (born 1940), former New Zealand politician
- Peter Brash (born 1954), American television soap opera writer
- Thomas Brash (1874-1957), leading figure in New Zealand's dairy industry
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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