Brash vs Trifling - What's the difference?
brash | trifling | Related terms |
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
trivial, or of little importance
* 2005 , .
idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
Brash is a related term of trifling.
As adjectives the difference between brash and trifling
is that brash is impetuous or rash or brash can be (us|colloquial|dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As nouns the difference between brash and trifling
is that brash is leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge while trifling is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.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)
trifling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
Synonyms
* trivial * inconsequential * petty * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.