brash

adjective · noun · verbA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

brashermore brash

Superlative

brashestmost brash

1.
(of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.
a brash young businessman; a brash tabloid; a brash sense of humour
Đồng nghĩa: audacious, brassy, brazen, cocky, undiplomatic
2.
(of actions) Overly bold, impetuous or rash.
Đồng nghĩa: foolhardy, reckless
3.
(of things) Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.
brash colours
a brash perfume
1963, Ian Fleming, Thrilling Cities, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 1, “Hong Kong,” There are scores of brash and noisy bars along Lockhart Street and in Wanchai and North Point (on the island) and throughout the back lanes of Kowloon […]
2001, Walt Dohrn et al. “Artist Unknown”, SpongeBob SquarePants, season 2, episode 18b, Nickelodeon Squidward: How about this one? I call it, Bold and Brash. Art Curator: More like, belongs in the trash!
Đồng nghĩa: flashy, garish, loud, splashy, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, campy, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, corny, crass, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, froufrou, garish, gauche, gaudy, gay, glaring, gross, gussied up, hideous, kitsch, kitschy, loud, meretricious, naff, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizazzy, pretentious, ritzy, raffish, schlocky, showy, snazzy, splendiferous, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, too much, trinkety, unbecoming, untasteful, vain, whorish, zesty
4.
(US, colloquial, dated)Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).
[…] brash timber, which is liable to snap; […]

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

brashes

1.
(countable, uncountable)A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A sudden burst of rain.
3.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)An attack or assault.
4.
(countable, uncountable)Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
5.
(countable, uncountable)(geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
6.
(countable, uncountable)Broken fragments of ice.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

brashes

V_ing/Gerund

brashing

V_ed/pp

brashed

1.
(obsolete, transitive)To disturb.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

. Perhaps from brash, brasch (a violent onset; an attack or assault). Perhaps also related to bars, barsch, barsk, barsk.