brash

adj

1. 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”

   “Mrs. Mayfield looked away, and the girl stricken with remorse, hastened to her and said: “There, I have been too brash, haven’t I? You must forgive me for I didn’t intend to be brash.” “Brash, my dear? What do you mean by that?” She laughed. “Why, I thought everybody know’d what brash meant. Well, it’s er—too quick to say somethin’ you oughtn’t to say.””

   “Trouble with Silzer is, he’s too brash—shoots off his mouth too much—likes to hear himself talk.”

   “The American’s brash unconcern for nuance indicates a young and vigorous country, the Briton’s clipped speech an ancient, proverbial reserve.”

   “Edusco liked him, he could tell; he imagined Edusco talking about him in a gathering of other self-made Igbo men, men who were brash and striving, who juggled huge businesses and supported vast extended families.”

2. Overly bold, impetuous or rash.

   “[…] just because you’re a little hot under the collar, don’t do anything brash, for fear you may regret it afterward.”

   “Now, Mr. Reed, you’ve committed nothing but a brash act of bad taste by bypassing the standard channels.”

3. 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 […]”

   “The driveway is filled with vehicles parked bumper to bumper and the house is lit up like I’ve never seen it before, brash yellow light streaming from every window on every floor, and the tinny, nasal sound of gramophone jazz trumpeting inside.”

   “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!”

4. (US, colloquial, dated)Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).

   “Hickory axles […] all cut from tough butt logs. Brash timber is excluded.”

   “Brash wood, when tested in bending, breaks with a short, sharp fracture instead of developing a splintering failure and absorbs a comparatively small amount of work between the elastic limit and final failure”

   “[…] brash timber, which is liable to snap; […]”

noun

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)Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.

   “Alluvium differs from the rubble or brash, just described, as being composed of sand and gravel, more or less rolled”

6. (countable, uncountable)Broken fragments of ice.

   “The sea dashed in an angry surf over its inclined sides, rattling the icy fragments or “brash” against its irregular surface”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To disturb.

name

1. A surname.