BRASHING

Verb

brashing

present participle of brash

Source: Wiktionary


BRASH

Brash, a. Etym: [Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk.]

Definition: Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.

Brash, a. Etym: [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.]

Definition: Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.

Brash, n. Etym: [See Brash brittle.]

1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

3. (Geol.)

Definition: Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell.

4. Broken fragments of ice. Kane. Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis.

– Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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