braw

braw
Synonyms and related words:
Junoesque, advantageous, agreeable, amply endowed, auspicious, becoming, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, bravura, bueno, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, capital, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cogent, comely, commendable, cosmopolitan, curvaceous, curvy, dapper, daring, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant, estimable, excellent, exhibitionistic, expedient, exquisite, fair, famous, favorable, fine, flashing, flashy, flaunting, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, genteel, glittering, goddess-like, good, good-looking, goodly, grand, healthy, helpful, jaunty, jazzy, kind, laudable, likely, lovely to behold, natty, neat, nice, nifty, nobby, noble, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pneumatic, posh, presentable, profitable, rakish, recherche, regal, ritzy, royal, shapely, sharp, showy, sightly, skillful, sleek, slender, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, sound, spiffy, splashy, splendid, splurgy, sporty, spruce, stacked, statuesque, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, well-built, well-dressed, well-favored, well-formed, well-groomed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

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  • Braw — Braw, a. [See {Brave}, a.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] 1. Well dressed; handsome; smart; brave; used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. A braw new gown. Burns. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. Good; fine. A braw night. Sir W. Scott. [Webster… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • braw — braw; braw·ly; braw·lie; …   English syllables

  • braw|ly — or braw|lie «BR lee», adverb. Scottish. finely; excellently; well …   Useful english dictionary

  • braw — Scottish formation and pronunciation of BRAVE (Cf. brave) …   Etymology dictionary

  • braw — [brô, brä] adj. [< BRAVE] Scot. 1. well dressed 2. splendid …   English World dictionary

  • Braw — If something is “braw” it is excellent, as in the well worn music hall phrase “It s a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht, the nicht”/ Braw is derived from “brave” …   Scottish slang

  • braw — brawly, brawlie, brawlis, brawlys /braw lis, brah /, adv. /braw, brah/, adj. Scot. and North Eng. 1. fine or fine looking; excellent. 2. finely dressed; dressed in a splendid or gaudy fashion. [1555 65; var. of BRAVE] * * * …   Universalium

  • braw — adjective ScotE 1 a braw woman is beautiful, especially because she is big and strong 2 braw weather is good …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • braw — [[t]brɔ, brɑ[/t]] adj. Chiefly Scot. 1) scot. excellent 2) scot. finely dressed • Etymology: 1555–65; var. of brave braw′ly, adv …   From formal English to slang

  • braw — /brɔ/ (say braw), /bra/ (say brah) adjective Scottish fine or fine looking; excellent. {variant of brave} …  

  • braw|lie — braw|ly or braw|lie «BR lee», adverb. Scottish. finely; excellently; well …   Useful english dictionary

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