brash - Hamely Tongue
Source: The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim
Author: James Fenton
Comments: ‘The Hamely Tongue’ has been widely acclaimed as the authoritative record of contemporary (surviving) Ulster-Scots in its heartland of County Antrim where James Fenton faithfully recorded his dictionary items among a network of other native speakers over a 30-year period. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from ‘Part One’ of the fourth edition of 2014 and includes over 3000 word entries. The book preliminaries, supplementary word lists and end matter have been excluded.
brash ~ a chill; a short bout of illness; a fever (Ye’ll stie oot in the ren tae ye gie yersel a brash); a brief squall of rain; a spell of churning (We can tak turns at giein it a brash). watter brash an eruption of gastric fluid into the gullet; a rush of ‘water’ into the mouth prior to vomiting. [chiefly Sc. and northern E dial.; cf. F brèche a breach, MLG brasch a crash (CSD)]
