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▪ I. brashy, a.1|ˈbræʃɪ| [f. brash n.2 + -y1.] Of the nature of brash; broken, crumbly, fragmentary.
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 106, I have eight or nine acres of brashy ground. 1857Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xvii. (1876) 311 Calcareous grits, and shelly ‘brashy’ sandstones. 1878Markham Gt. Frozen Sea iv. 51 The ice was of a soft ‘brashy’ nature..from one to three feet in thickness. ▪ II. ˈbrashy, a.2 Sc. Also braushie. [f. brash n.1 3.] Characterized by brashes of rain; showery.
1805Nicol Poems I. 114 (Jam.) Thro' monie a speat O' braushie weather. 1865Gd. Words June 466 The spring had been very brashy and cauld. |