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Brash vs Brashy - What's the difference?

brash | brashy |

As adjectives the difference between brash and brashy

is that brash is impetuous or rash while brashy is brash, stormy.

As a noun brash

is leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.

brash

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • impetuous or rash
    • (Grose)
  • insensitive or tactless
  • impudent or shameless

    • Noun

  • 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.
    • (Lyell)
  • Broken fragments of ice.
    • (Kane)
    Derived terms
    * water brash * weaning brash

    Etymology 2

    Compare Amer. (bresk), (brusk), fragile, brittle.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (US, colloquial, dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables
    • (Bartlett)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    brashy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • brash, stormy
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Captain R. F. Scott, title=Scott's Last Expedition Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Several skuas seen--three seals up in our Bay--several off Pram Point in the shelter of Horse Shoe Bay. A great many fish on sea ice--mostly small, but a second species 5 or 6 inches long: imagine they are chased by seals and caught in brashy ice where they are unable to escape. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Frank T. Bullen, title=The Cruise of the Cachalot, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The sea was little encumbered with ice, it being now late in June, so that our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered, none of them hard enough to do a ship's hull any damage. }}
  • brittle, crumbly
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=J. Meade Falkner, title=Moonfleet, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It was after noon, for the sun was past the meridian, and very hot for the time of year, when the face of the country began to change; and instead of the short sward of the open down, sprinkled with tiny white snail-shells, the ground was brashy with flat stones, and divided up into tillage fields. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1893, author=Edward Harrison Barker, title=Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=On either side the cliffs rose higher, and the walls of Jurassic rock, above the brashy steeps, more towering, precipitous, and fantastic. }}