Obs. or dial. [? Connected with prec. or with BRASH sb.1] Hasty, rash, impetuous.
1824. Craven Dial., 24. What a brash raggald!
1875. Lanc. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Brash, hasty.
Hence Brashly adv., Brashness.
1884. Mexican Let., in Boston (Mass.) Jrnl., Aug. This department of business that started off so brashly has played out.
1883. N. York Paper, in Pall Mall Gaz., 9 July, 11/1. Vanderbilt, with all his brashness on the road, is timid in the street.
