▪ I. brashy, a.1
(ˈbræʃɪ)
[f. brash n.2 + -y1.]
Of the nature of brash; broken, crumbly, fragmentary.
| a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1757) 106, I have eight or nine acres of brashy ground. 1857 Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xvii. (1876) 311 Calcareous grits, and shelly ‘brashy’ sandstones. 1878 Markham 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.
| 1805 Nicol Poems I. 114 (Jam.) Thro' monie a speat O' braushie weather. 1865 Gd. Words June 466 The spring had been very brashy and cauld. |