brash
adjective/bræʃ/
/bræʃ/
(disapproving)- confident in an aggressive way
- Beneath his brash exterior, he's still a little boy inside.
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- (of things and places) too bright or too noisy in a way that is not attractive
- It was real gold but it still looked brash and cheap.
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally dialect); perhaps a form of the adjective rash.
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