Crossword clues for braw
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Braw \Braw\, a. [See Brave, a.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. ``A braw new gown.''
--Burns.Good; fine. ``A braw night.''
--Sir W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Scottish formation and pronunciation of brave.
WordNet
Usage examples of "braw".
The faithful folk of Fife are marching cannily against his left flank, and mustering from the Glasgow airt against his right are the braw lads of the West, led by those well-disposed noblemen, the Earl of Eglinton, the Earl of Cassilis, and the Earl of Glencairn.
Francie Stuart was one--him that was Earl of Bothwell in the days of James the Saxt, and he had a braw coven down by Dunbar and the Bass.
They were braw beasts, Leicester every one of them, well-fed and dirt-cheap at the price I gave.
It was hung with braw pictures and lined with big bookcases of oak well-filled with books in fine bindings.
It was little he could see of the road, and ere long he had tried many moss pools and sloughs, as his braw new coat bare witness.
I have a crow to pyke with you, but first I have some braw tidings for your ear.
Nicholas was like me--he kenned fine that our triumph in the North was fairy gold that is braw dollars one day and the next a nieve-full of bracken.
What becomes, think you, of the braw commission of the Privy Council that Chasehope had the procuring of?
Lord Provost, who was concerned about such braw things as the restoration of the old cathedral and letting the sun into the ancient tenements, should be much interested in a small, masterless dog.
Tinker cherished but a faint hope that Fortune would ever send him a prisoner, even a braw, shock-headed lad, or sonsie, savage lassie of the country.
A traitor not to the king, but to all the braw men who fought for Prince Charlie.
She could only hope to be as braw as her brothers, and give whatever she must to save her remaining brother.
Lauder dominie lickit intil me to ken that Achilles was a braw sodger.
I last saw him in my own house with his body-servant and his braw clothes and his shiny boots and his silver dressing-case, the very pattern of a Corinthian.
Sir Turnour is a braw fellow, but three to one is heavy odds, and these three are not weaklings.