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Definition of Brashy
1. a. Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.
Definition of Brashy
1. Adjective. brash, stormy ¹
2. Adjective. brittle, crumbly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brashy
1. brash [adj BRASHIER, BRASHIEST] - See also: brash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brashy
Literary usage of Brashy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a Complete ...Great Britain (1900)
"Henry III.), is now occupied by a farmer. Wellow (2). pa. and vil., NE Somerset,
5 8. of Bath; ae. 5,•-'•>'- ; soil brashy ..."
2. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"In this section it is to be noted that a large proportion of the lower beds are
brashy or irregular, and that the extent of the beds above ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Small and rubbish)', usually of small sticks: as " Those birk kids are so brashy ; "
or of larch tops, " They're worthless stuff, ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe). by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"Small and rubbish}-, usually of small sticks : as " Those birk kids are so
brashy ; " or of larch tops, " They're worthless stuff, ..."
5. Agricultural Geology by John Edward Marr (1903)
"The Corn- brash gives rise to a soil which is described by the name of the
formation; it is, in the south-western counties at any rate, a brashy soil, ..."
6. Engineering Geology by William Henry Penning (1880)
"The loose and brashy soils of the Forest Marble and the Great Oolite limestone
... The brashy soils derived from the Inferior Oolite is poor on the higher ..."
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