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Brash vs Overawe - What's the difference?

brash | overawe |

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.

As a verb overawe is

to restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.

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) ----

    overawe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (overaw)
  • To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.
  • * 1591 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 1 :
    • None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe .
  • * 1849 , , Mardi: and A Voyage Thither , Volume I, ch. 57:
    • His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.
  • * 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 61:
    • He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.

    Antonyms

    * underwhelm