Definition of "brash"

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.”

1902, Opie Read, The Starbucks‎, Chicago: Laird & Lee, Chapter, page 210

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

1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 17, in Arrowsmith‎

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

1958, Peter De Vries, chapter 14, in Mackerel Plaza, Penguin, published 1986, page 209

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.

2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 54, in Americanah, New York: Knopf

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

1905, Andy Adams, chapter 2, in The Outlet‎, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 22

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

1960 April, George O. Smith, “The Troublemakers”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 18, number 4, page 156

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 […]

1963, Ian Fleming, Thrilling Cities, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 1, “Hong Kong,”

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.

1996, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 24, in The Englishman’s Boy‎, New York: Picador, published 1998, page 243

Squidward: How about this one? I call it, Bold and Brash. / Art Curator: More like, belongs in the trash!

2001, Walt Dohrn et al. “Artist Unknown”, SpongeBob SquarePants, season 2, episode 18b, Nickelodeon

Sadly, by the 1970s the arcade had gone downmarket with brash shop fronts and cheap shops, some of doubtful reputation.

2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Great Western Railway Craft Skills Award: Victoria Arcade”, in RAIL, number 946, page 59

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

1919, Forest Products Laboratory, Wood in Aircraft Construction

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

1839, Sir Charles Lyell, Elements of Geology

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

1853, Elisha Kent Kane, The U. S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin