[
UK
/bɹˈɔː/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
brightly colored and showy
`braw' is a Scottish word
girls decked out in brave new dresses
birds with gay plumage
a dress a bit too gay for her years
brave banners flying
How To Use braw In A Sentence
- A gaggle of brawny bikers revs their choppers out front.
- I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
- No fighting style remains a mystery to Hopkins inside the ring and he can box with you or brawl - it does not matter.
- Football is an interesting battle of brain as well as brawn and in the final term significant changes evolved in each team.
- They are extremely handsome and sensual, and glory in a drunken brawl.
- I met wi 'twa dink quines in particular, ane o' them a sonsie, fine, fodgel lass, baith braw and bonnie; the tither was clean-shankit, straught, tight, weelfar'd winch, as blythe's a lintwhite on a flowerie thorn, and as sweet and modest's a new-blawn plumrose in a hazle shaw. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
- Their neighbors are ninja types who are constantly brawling with other evil ninja types.
- The arm is brawny enough for a man, but the nails are very long, like a woman's.
- I loved the offal, brawn and brains this series. The Sun
- Ye're aye cute, dame," I cried, thrawing the bit gy abune, and in a gliffing, doun jumpit the chiel, and a braw chiel he was sure enough, siccan my auld e'en sall ne'er see again, wi 'his brent brow and buirdly bowk wrappit in a tartan plaid, wi' a Highland kilt. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827