Brags vs Brash - What's the difference?
brags | brash |
(brag)
To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.
* Shakespeare
To boast of.
*Shakespeare
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
* Shakespeare
The thing which is boasted of.
* Milton
(by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
First-rate.
(archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
* Ben Jonson
impetuous or rash
insensitive or tactless
impudent or shameless
Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
(geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
Broken fragments of ice.
(US, colloquial, dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables
As a verb brags
is (brag).As an adjective brash is
impetuous or rash or brash can be (us|colloquial|dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables.As a noun brash is
leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.brags
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----brag
English
Verb
- to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money
- Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
- Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
Synonyms
* boastDerived terms
* braggart * bragging rights * humblebragNoun
(en noun)- Caesar made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
- Beauty is Nature's brag .
- (Chesterfield)
Adjective
(bragger)- a brag young fellow
References
Anagrams
* * ----brash
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en-adj)- (Grose)
Noun
- (Lyell)
- (Kane)
Derived terms
* water brash * weaning brashEtymology 2
Compare Amer. (bresk), (brusk), fragile, brittle.Adjective
(en-adj)- (Bartlett)