rash
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rash1
▶adjective acting or done without careful consideration.
– derivatives
rashly adverb,
rashness noun.
rashly adverb,
rashness noun.
– origin ME: of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rash2
▶noun
- 1 an area of redness and spots on the skin.
- 2 an unwelcome series of things happening within a short space of time: a rash of strikes.
– origin C18: prob. rel. to OFr. rasche ‘eruptive sores, scurf’.
'rash' also found in these Oxford entries:
brash
- chickenpox
- desperation
- erupt
- eruption
- exanthema
- foolhardy
- hare-brained
- hotspur
- imprudent
- Kawasaki disease
- measles
- miliary
- nappy rash
- panic
- papule
- past
- pox
- prickly heat
- purpura
- roseola
- scarlet fever
- temerarious
- typhus
- unadvisedly
- unconsidered
- urticaria
