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Dashing vs Brash - What's the difference?

dashing | brash |

As adjectives the difference between dashing and brash

is that dashing is spirited, audacious and full of high spirits while brash is impetuous or rash or brash can be (us|colloquial|dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables.

As nouns the difference between dashing and brash

is that dashing is the action of the verb to dash while brash is leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.

As a verb dashing

is .

dashing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
  • Chic, fashionable.
    • All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to dash.

    • Anagrams

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    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)
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