rash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹæʃ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology 1
From Middle English rash, rasch (“hasty, headstrong”), from Old English *ræsc ("rash"; found in derivatives: ræscan (“to move rapidly, flicker, flash, quiver, glitter”), ræscettan (“to crackle, sparkle”), etc.), from Proto-Germanic *raskaz, *raskuz, *raþskaz, *raþskuz (“rash, rapid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ret- (“to run, roll”). Cognate with Dutch rasch, ras (“rash, snell”), Middle Low German rasch (“rash”), German rasch (“rash, swift”), Swedish rask (“brisk, quick, rash”), Icelandic röskur (“strong, vigorous”).
Adjective
rash (comparative rasher, superlative rashest)
- Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty.
- rash words spoken in the heat of debate
- So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
- (obsolete) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
- Shakespeare
- I scarce have leisure to salute you, / My matter is so rash.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) Fast-acting.
- Shakespeare
- Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder.
- Shakespeare
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Noun
rash (plural rashes)
Synonyms
(A surge in problems): epidemic
Derived terms
- canker rash
- diaper rash
- heat rash
- hiker’s rash
- nappy rash
- nettle rash
- rashguard
- rashie
- rash vest
- reef rash
- rose rash
- tooth rash
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Verb
rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed)
Etymology 2
Compare French ras (“short-nap cloth”), Italian and Spanish raso, satin, or Italian rascia (“serge”), German Rasch, probably from Arras in France.
Noun
rash (uncountable)
Etymology 3
For arace
Verb
rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed)
- (obsolete) To pull off or pluck violently.
- (obsolete) To slash; to hack; to slice.
- Edmund Spenser
- rashing of helms and riving plates asunder
- Edmund Spenser
Further reading
- rash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- rash in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.