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Brash vs Haught - What's the difference?

brash | haught |

As adjectives the difference between brash and haught

is that brash is impetuous or rash or brash can be (us|colloquial|dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables while haught is (obsolete) haughty.

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) ----

    haught

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Haughty.