BRAINISH

hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway, brainish

(adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; “a hotheaded decision”; “liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers”; “an impetuous display of spending and gambling”; “madcap escapades”; (‘brainish’ is archaic)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

brainish (comparative more brainish, superlative most brainish)

(obsolete) hot-headed; furious

Anagrams

• bairnish

Source: Wiktionary


Brain"ish, a.

Definition: Hot-headed; furious. [R.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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