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brashier

brashier is the comparative form of brashy.

Meaning of brashy

Adjective

brashy (comparative more brashy, superlative most brashy)

  1. brash, stormy
    • Several skuas seen--three seals up in our Bay--several off Pram Point in the shelter of Horse Shoe Bay. A great many fish on sea ice--mostly small, but a second species 5 or 6 inches long: imagine they are chased by seals and caught in brashy ice where they are unable to escape.1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
  2. brittle, crumbly
    • It was after noon, for the sun was past the meridian, and very hot for the time of year, when the face of the country began to change; and instead of the short sward of the open down, sprinkled with tiny white snail-shells, the ground was brashy with flat stones, and divided up into tillage fields.1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet
    Synonyms:
    brash

Proper noun capitalized: Brashier

Brashier

  1. A surname from French.

Questions about brashier

What does brashier mean?
Brashier means a surname from French.
What is brashier the comparative form of?
Brashier is the comparative form of brashy.
What part of speech is brashier?
Brashier is a proper noun.

Words near brashier in the dictionary

  1. Brasher doubloon
  2. Brasher doubloons
  3. Brashers
  4. brashes
  5. brashest
  6. brashier
  7. brashiest
  8. brashiness
  9. brashing
  10. brashly
  11. brashness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brashier (page history and authors); Brashier (page history and authors); brashy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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