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Is brash a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word brash is a Scrabble US word. The word brash is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

B3R1A1S1H4

Is brash a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word brash is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

B3R1A1S1H4

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5-letter words (1 found)

BRASH,

4-letter words (6 found)

ARBS,BARS,BASH,BRAS,RAHS,RASH,

3-letter words (15 found)

ABS,AHS,ARB,ARS,ASH,BAH,BAR,BAS,BRA,HAS,RAH,RAS,SAB,SAR,SHA,

2-letter words (7 found)

AB,AH,AR,AS,BA,HA,SH,

You can make 29 words from brash according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of brash

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Definitions and meaning of brash

brash

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹæʃ/
  • Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”).

Adjective

brash (comparative brasher or more brash, superlative brashest or most brash)

  1. (of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.
    Synonyms: audacious, brassy, brazen, cocky, undiplomatic
  2. (of actions) Overly bold, impetuous or rash.
    Synonyms: foolhardy, reckless
  3. (of things) Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.
    Synonyms: flashy, garish, loud, splashy; see also Thesaurus:gaudy
    brash colours; a brash perfume
    • 1963, Ian Fleming, Thrilling Cities, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 1, “Hong Kong,”[4]
      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!
Translations

Noun

brash (countable and uncountable, plural brashes)

  1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  2. A sudden burst of rain.
  3. (obsolete) An attack or assault.
Derived terms
  • water brash
  • weaning brash

Verb

brash (third-person singular simple present brashes, present participle brashing, simple past and past participle brashed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To disturb.

Etymology 2

(Can we verify(+) this sense?) Compare American English bresk, brusk (“fragile, brittle”).

Adjective

brash (comparative brasher or more brash, superlative brashest or most brash)

  1. (US, colloquial, dated) Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).
    • 2000, Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (page 94)
      […] brash timber, which is liable to snap; […]

Noun

brash (countable and uncountable, plural brashes)

  1. Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
  2. (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
  3. Broken fragments of ice.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “brash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Harbs, brahs, h bars, h-bars, hbars, shrab

Scots

Noun

brash (plural brashes)

  1. illness, fit

Derived terms

  • water brash

Source: wiktionary.org